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|author=Edith Pearlman
|title=Honeydew
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=American short story writer [[:Category:Edith Pearlman|Edith Pearlman]] brings us a compilation of stories that have only been seen separately in magazines over the years. This follows on from the huge success of ''Binocular Vision'' (in 2013), the short story collection that led to Ms Pearlman being presented with the National Critics' Circle Award.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444797018</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|author=Leslie Charteris and John Telfer (narrator)
|summary=I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The most fun when facing a new author, especially a big name one, is to come through the underground, tackling the smaller works, the quirkier output, the less representative sections of her or his oeuvre. And for those who have or haven't read ''The Jane Austen Book Club'', there is plenty of potential for that with the rest of [[The Case of the Imaginary Detective by Karen Joy Fowler|Karen Joy Fowler]], for her output includes almost as many selections of short stories as it does very successful novels, and what's more they carry the science fictional banner. A long time ago there was a teenage me very happy to be reading ''Lord of the Flies'' and writing an essay about how sci-fi it was, and I do relish the mainstream author entering a genre, or the inverse of that. But boy, I normally come away a lot happier than I did here.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1604868252</amazonuk>
}}
 
{{newreview
|author=Kate Mosse
|title=The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales
|rating=4.5
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=This book of 14 short stories and a short play is based on the idea
of haunting. Sometimes the haunting is the ghostly kind and sometimes
something psychologically deeper and more primal. All the stories drift to
us from different eras, both past and recent, but all have one thing in
common: they centre on a troubled person. For instance we meet Gaston, a
French child who witnesses an odd event on the beach just after losing his
parents. In the inevitably touching but beautiful ''Red Letter Day'' we
travel to a French castle with a woman who has an appointment with the past.
If you want something completely different, there's ''The Duet'' which draws
us into a fascinating dialogue and then hits us with a sting.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409148041</amazonuk>
}}
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