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|title=The Best British Short Stories 2014

|author=Nicholas Royle (editor)

|rating=5

|genre=Short Stories

|summary=I’m a keen reader and I like a massive tome. But every so often, I drift into a mode of finding it hard to settle to anything and at such times, I like to read short stories. I also enjoy them when I’m horribly busy and don’t have the time to read much more.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773673</amazonuk>

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|title=Any Other Mouth

These are just a few of the premises you can try out for size in Rob Keeley's third book of short stories for middle grade readers. He's really having some fun with this format. I approve. We need more short story collections for this age group. They're entertaining and they appeal particularly to reluctant readers. Short stories like this can act as a springboard to full-length novels.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783060603</amazonuk>

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~~|title=Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detective~~

~~|author=Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec (Editors)~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Anthologies~~

|summary=C. Auguste Dupin is often regarded as the first fictional detective and at the very least Edgar Allan Poe’s character was the blueprint for many sleuths to come, most notably Sherlock Holmes. Dupin is an eccentric genius from Paris whose use of logic and deduction aid the police on their most baffling cases. The characters literary debut was in the short story ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'' in 1841 and between 1842 and 1844 Poe wrote two more short stories about Dupin and his exploits. ''Beyond Rue Morgue'' contains nine stories (in addition to the original Poe tale) by various authors and gives many different takes on the same character or influenced by him. From samurai assassins and the apocalypse to an agoraphobic distant relative of Dupin attempting to solve a murder without even leaving her home; the different writers all take the intriguing character to places we wouldn’t expect and the creativity of all keeps the character fresh from story to story.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781161755</amazonuk>~~

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