{"product_id":"penguin-book-contemp-british-short-story","title":"Penguin Book\/contemp British Short Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Sometimes - not often - a book comes along that feels like Christmas. Philip Hensher''s timely, but timeless, selection of the best short stories from the past 20 years is that kind of book. His introduction is as enriching as anything that has been published this year'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are living in a particularly rich period for British short  stories. Despite the relative lack of places in which they can be  published, the challenge the medium represents has attracted a host of  remarkable, subversive, entertaining and innovative writers. Philip Hensher, following the success of his definitive \u003ci\u003ePenguin Book of British Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e,  has scoured a vast trove of material and chosen thirty great stories  for this new volume of works written between 1997 and the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes short stories by A.L. Kennedy, Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jackie Kay, Graham Swift, Jane Gardam, Ali Smith, Neil Gaiman, Martin Amis, China Miéville, Peter Hobbs, Thomas Morris, David Rose, David Szalay, Irvine Welsh, Lucy Caldwell, Rose Tremain, Helen Oyeyemi, Leone Ross, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Will Self, Gerard Woodward, James Kelman, Lucy Wood, Hilary Mantel, Eley Williams, Sarah Hall, Mark Haddon and Helen Dunmore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319382253950,"sku":"NW9780141986210","price":11.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141986210.jpg?v=1778651382","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/penguin-book-contemp-british-short-story","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}