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Making a trip to Edinburgh? This wonderful collection of stories, articles, memoirs, letters, poems and tales about Edinburgh past and present will prove invaluable:
For centuries Edinburgh, ‘the most beautiful city in Europe’ according to John Betjeman, has inspired affection and admiration from both natives and visitors alike. This absorbing anthology spans five hundred years of the city's history from the Battle of Flodden to the novels of lan Rankin, with famous names such as Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside less familiar ones such as the Chinese writer Chiang Yee. This book is a great tribute to a city now in the full flood of a social, political and cultural renaissance. Editor: Ralph Lownie. (335 pages)

Contents: Introduction — First Impressions — Places — People — Visitors — Everyday Life In Adversity And Joy — Pillars of the City — A Final Tribute.

The BBC National Short story Award is one of the world's largest awards for a single short story. All five shortlisted stories, including the winner, are published here side by side. The Award is designed to honour Britain's finest short story writers and to re-establish the importance of the short story as a central literary form.  This year's top stories explore human relationships at their most dysfunctional and yet sustaining: splintered families, the persistence of love, the public versus the private and the plight of the outsider.

• ‘Tea at the Midland’ by David Constantine (winner)
• ‘Haywards Heath’ by Aminatta Forna
• ‘Butcher’s Perfume’ by Sarah Hall
• ‘If it Keeps on Raining’ by Jon McGregor
• ‘My Daughter the Racist’ by Helen Oyeyemi

Best British Short Stories aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor’s brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume. Editor: Nicholas Royle. (227 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet etc.

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Table of contents: Flora – David Rose; Winter Break – Hilary Mantel; Emergency Exit – Lee Rourke; Love Silk Food – Leone Ross; Feather Girls – Claire Massey; Foreigner – Christopher Burns; Dinner of the Dead Alumni – Adam Marek; The Swimmer – SJ Butler; So Much Time in a Life – Heather Leach; Staff Development – Alan Beard; The Rental Heart – Kirsty Logan; Notes on a Love Story – Philip Langeskov; No Angel – Bernie McGill; Slut’s Hair – John Burnside; Comma – Hilary Mantel; Moving Day – Robert Edric; Tristram and Isolde – Michèle Roberts; Looted – Dai Vaughan; When the Door Closed, It Was Dark – Alison Moore; Epiphany – Salley Vickers

A great regional anthology from the North of England. Many excellent stories in a collection which reflects the new wave of new fiction talent in the North of England. Barbers with built-up soles, cross-dressers, illicit affairs, orang-utans, crime in the city, homelessness, peeping toms and relationships of all kinds — these stories are enormously varied in setting and style but very satisfying.  A teachable selection. (140 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet etc C-A

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A very popular new collection of 35 stories written primarily (but not exclusively) for and by women:
There are tales of love, friendship, passion and betrayal from some of the top names in fiction. A woman plans not only what she wants to wear to a school reunion, but who she wants to be ... A couple hope to start a new life in Spain but each of them completely misunderstands what the other one wants ... A girl whose brother falls in love with a beautiful male impersonator ... A woman haunted by ghosts from her past ... A newly divorced mother taking her teenage daughter to Crete for a holiday, longing to be young again, until she remembers how awful it is to be 17.
There are stories by Maeve Binchy, Jane Fallon, Adriana Trigiani, Alexander McCall Smith, Anne Fine, Nicci French, Rosie Thomas, Joanna Trollope, Mark Mills, Kath Lette, Victoria Hislop, Wendy Holden and many others.
Level: Gymnasiet

For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for “Metro Eireann”, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories takes a new slant on the immigrant experience, something of increasing relevance in today's Ireland. The stories range from Guess Who's Coming to the Dinner, where a father who prides himself on his open-mindedness when his daughters talk about sex, is forced to confront his feelings when one of them brings home a black fella, to a terrifying ghost story, The Pram, in which a Polish nanny grows impatient with her charge’s older sisters and decides — in a phrase she has learnt — to ‘scare them shitless’. Most of the stories are very funny — in 57 percent Irish Ray Brady tries to devise a test of Irishness by measuring reactions to Robbie Keane’s goal against Germany in the 2002 World Cup, Riverdance and ‘Danny Boy’ — others are deeply moving. And best of all, in the title story itself, Jimmy Rabbitte, the man who formed The Commitments, decides it's time to find a new band, and this time no White Irish need apply! Multicultural to a fault, The Deportees specialise not in soul music this time, but the songs of Woody Guthrie. Author: Roddy Doyle. (242 pages)
Level: For use from 10.kl./beginning of the gymnasium

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This is a great collection of stories from the last 60 years. It moves from the classic Irish short story of Frank O'Connor, Elizabeth Bowen and Mary Lavin, to contemporary writers like Aidan Mathews, Kevin Barry and Claire Keegan, via stories by Samuel Beckett, Colm Toibin, Maeve Brennan, Bernard MacLaverty. You will also find: John McGahern Colum McCann, Roddy Doyle and many others.
Nostalgic, dark, comic, iconoclastic, lyrical, humorous or tragic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight and, even with the collapse of the Celtic Tiger, continues to do so.  The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of social change, and shows the ease and pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short story form. Editor: Anne Enright. Large format paperback. (442 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet

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16 stories by accomplished writers, weave a picture of contemporary migration to the UK. Armed conflict, natural disasters and global economic imabalances have had their impact on every nation of the world, including Britain. This anthology gives fictional voice to UK migrants of both recent times and the more distant past. These are stories that startle, inform and engage ... that get right under the skin. These are stories that are rarely heard, whether they are set inside a grotty bedsit, a container making its way to the UK, or a dance class offering an outlet to a person cut off from their family ties. They are shocking and matter of fact at the same time, but they also tell us of the capacity to survive and fight for better things to come. Editors: Muli Amaye, Martin de Mello, Corinne Fowler. (182 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet etc.

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Frank Myszor’s excellent introduction to a field that is very important in everyday teaching. Read the whole book or just pick out the bits you need. Contents: 1. Putting Short Stories in their Place (The 19thCentury, Modernism, Contemporary and Post-modern — looks at the individual authors and trends); 2. Approaching the texts (Point of view, Plotting etc.); 3. Stories and extracts; 4. Critical approaches; 5. Resources
A volume in the Contexts in Literature series,
Level: Library/Depot

What are Nanotales?
Nanotales are a style of literature formed for a generation with very little patience!
A nanotale is designed to be read between tube stations, with a morning coffee, or at the bus-stop.
A nanotale should be capable of producing an intense emotional response — pain, panic, euphoria or ecstasy.
A nanotale aims to transport the reader into another world and back in just seven minutes.

In this book with no chapters, no page numbers and no index, Ziv Navoth takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride into the trials and tribulations of ordinary people — from the moral dilemma of the advertising executive briefed to create a campaign for an imaginary war, to the anguish of the widow faced with explaining her husband's death to her little boy.
The author, Ziv Navoth, is the son of a Secret Service officer, born in Israel, raised in Tehran and Washington and now living in London. (252 pages)
Level: C+

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New Irish Short Stories showcases a fascinating variety of writers, both new and established. Ireland’s current financial problems form a background to many of the stories, but the influence of the old masters of the Irish short story is still very much there. It features among many others, William Trevor, Roddy Doyle, Rebecca Miller, Richard Ford, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Colm Toibin and Kevin Barry, and it shows the Irish short story to be a vibrant and thriving form. Editor: Joseph O'Connor. (432 pages)
Level: Gymnasium/HF etc.

The classic collection of 18 stories by William Boyd:
Adolescent sex in a Scottish boys’ public school ... oddballs on the seedy side of America ... murder in a quiet Devon cottage ... Boyd's writing combines violence, comedy, experiment and great variety. In the great title story Boyd confronts America’s hidden class system, the clinical terror of modern warfare, economic and social exploitation, and how whole societies can be built on domination for domination's sake. (226 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet A-B

Contents: Introduction; The Land Ironclads (H.G.Wells); Finis (Frank Pollack); As Easy as ABC (Rudyard Kipling); The Metal Man (Jack Williamson); A Martian Odyssey (Stanley Weinbaum); Night (John W. Campbell); Desertion (Clifford Simak); The Piper's Son (Lewis Padgett); The Monster (A.E. van Vogt); The Second Night of Summer (James Schmitz); Second Dawn (Arthur C. Clarke); Crucifixus Etiam (Walter Miller); The Tunnel Under the World (Frederik Pohl); Who Can Replace a Man? (Brian Aldiss); Billennium (J.G.Ballard); The Ballard of Lost C'mell (Cordwainer Smith); Semley's Necklace (Ursula Le Guin)); How Beautiful with Banners (James Blish); A Criminal Act (Harry Harrison)); Problems of Creativeness (Thomas Disch); How the Whip Came Back (Gene Wolfe); Cloak of Anarchy (Larry Niven); A Thing of Beauty (Norman Spinrad); The Screwfly Solution (Raccoona); The Way of Cross and Dragon (George Martin); Swarm (Bruce Sterling); Burning Chrome (William Gibson); Silicon Muse (Hilbert Schenck); Karl and the Ogre (Paul McAuley); Piecework (David Brin); Select Bibliography.

Tales of the supernatural, social realism, humorous stories, disturbing stories, rural stories, urban stories. This anthology captures the variety and vitality of the Scottish short story. It begins with three early traditional tales, and includes a wealth of writers from the last three centuries: amongst them Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, J. M. Barrie, Violet Jacob, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, and younger talents such as Ronald Frame, Janice Galloway, and A. L. Kennedy. Editor: Douglas Dunn. (477 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet/Library/Depot

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A classic anthology, first published in 1981:

Beginning with an exquisite love story -- an ancient saga retold by Lady Gregory -- and continuing with George Moore and the birth of the modern short story at the turn of the century, this collection includes both classic writers and contemporaries. It features the work of such preeminent literary figures as James Joyce, Sean O'Faolain, Mary Lavin, Frank O'Connor, and Liam O'Flaherty, whose work re-established the tradition of the short story; it concludes with more recent exponents of the form, all of them highly acclaimed, including Elizabeth Bowen, William Trevor, and Edna O'Brien. Editor: Benedict Kiely. (544 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet etc.l

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A classic anthology first published in 1976:

In twenty-four short stories, written by Welsh men and women, for the most part about Welsh people, we are treated to depictions of valley and mountain, country and town, as well as offered powerful and moving insights into the nature of the people. Editor: Christopher Dolley. (320 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet etc.

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A classic anthology first published in 1970:

From tales of the supernatural to pungent social realism, and from the humorous to the disturbing, whether rural or urban, this anthology shows the vitality of the Scottish short story. Douglas Dunn's eclectic selection displays the marvellous range of Scottish story-telling, beginning with three early traditional tales, and including a wealth of writers from the last three centuries: amongst them Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, J. M. Barrie, Violet Jacob, Neil Gunn, Eric Linklater, Alasdair Gray, James Kelman, and younger talents such as Ronald Frame, Janice Galloway, and A. L. Kennedy. Editor: Douglas Dunn. (256 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet etc.

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Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a collection of classic stories, featuring tales by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, R.L. Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, H.G.Wells and many others. Editor: David Stuart Davies. (240 pages)
Level: 2nd/3rd Year of Gymnasium

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Stories of Ourselves is a “set text” for Cambridge International Examinations. The anthology contains stories by writers from many different countries and cultures. The classics are represented alongside new voices from around the world. The stories have been chosen for their wide appeal and accessibility. This collection includes stories by Charles Dickens, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene, V.S. Naipaul, R.K. Narayan, Janet Frame, Raymond Carver, Jhumpa Lahiri, Annie Proulx and many others. (450 Pages)
Level: Gymnasiet/HF etc.

The Stories: There are 85 stories by 76 writers varying from classic fiction by William Faulkner and Kate Chopin to acclaimed contemporary work by Daniyal Mueenuddin and Marjane Satrapi. There are 25 new stories in this edition.

Authors include: Chinua Achebe, Sherman Alexie, Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara, Russell Banks, Ann Beattie, Alison Bechdel, Aimee Bender, Ambrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, Lan Samantha Chang, John Cheever, Anton Chekhov, Kate Chopin, Kate Chopin, Sandra Cisneros, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, Junot Díaz, Ralph Ellison, Louise Erdrich, William Faulkner, Gabriel García Márquez, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nadine Gordimer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Amy Hempel, A. M. Homes, Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Jackson, Gish Jen, Sarah Orne Jewett, A Edward P. Jones, James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bobbie Ann Mason, Guy de Maupassant, Herman Melville, Daniyal Mueenuddin, Bharati Mukherjee, Alice Munro, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O’Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Tillie Olsen, Cynthia Ozick, ZZ Packer, Grace Paley, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Annie Proulx, Joe Sacco, Marjane Satrapi, Leslie Marmon Silko, Helen Simpson, Art Spiegelman, Amy Tan, John Updike, Helena Maria Viramontes, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Alice Walker, David Foster Wallace, Eudora Welty, Tobias Wolff, Richard Wright.

“Casebooks”: Multiple commentaries by and about the featured writer enable in-depth study Raymond Carver (essays by and about Raymond Carver); Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies”; Flannery O'Connor (essays by and about Flannery O'Connor); Graphic Storytelling.

Appendices: Reading Short Stories, The Elements of Fiction, A Brief History of the Short Story, Writing About Short Stories, Literary Theory and Critical Perspectives, Glossary of Literary Terms, Chronological Listing of Authors and Stories.

CD-Rom: Interactive Tutorials; Multimedia & Document Library; Research & Dcumentation Guide.

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To celebrate the launch of Quick Reads in 2006, "The Sun" ran a short story competition called 'Get Britain Reading' in order to find the hidden talent among its ten million readers. There was a remarkable response, with hilarious, moving and powerful stories pouring in. The Sun Book of Short Stories contains a selection of the winning entries. Short and highly accessible stories. (95 pages)
Level: C

A classic collection of Roald Dahl stories:

Contents: The Umbrella Man; Dip in the Pool; The Butler; The Hitchhiker; Mr Botibol; My Lady Love, My Dove; The Way Up to Heaven; Parson's Pleasure; The Sound Machine; The Wish.´

Level: 8.-10. kl / First year of Gymnasium / E-C / Intermediate+ evening classes / Linjefag

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A collection of post-millennium short stories:
This anthology is a collection of post-millennium short stories exploring a sense of awakening or of reaching a turning point. There are five themed sections: Colliding worlds; Growing up; Meetings with death; Home and school and The world of adults. There are stories by Helen Dunmore, Jackie Kay, Matthew Kneale, Helen Simpson, Colm Toibin, Rose Tremain and many others.Click on “Flere oplysninger” to see the Table of Contents.  Editor: David A. Hill.  (232 pages)
Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning

Contents: a) Printable, editable support material (including lesson plans and differentiated worksheets); b) A large selection of multimedia support material (such as photographs and audio clips). This Teachers' Resource CD-ROM explores the sense of reawakening in post-millenium short stories. For use both with interactive whiteboards and on individual computers.

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A collection of fiction and non-fiction:
This anthology is a collection of extracts from novels, newspaper articles, poems and short stories, providing an accessible view of the Victorian age. There are four themed sections: Adventures, Childhood, Urbanisation and Relationships. There are texts by Mrs Beeton, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Henry Mayhew, Anthony Trollope, Mark Twain, Jules Verne and many others. Click on “Flere oplysninger” to see the Table of Contents. Editor: Linda Marland. (264 pages)
Level: Material for all levels of the gymnasium, especially the beginning

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A collection of high quality and teachable short stories by some of the finest modern writers, such as: Bradbury, Dahl, Cheever, MacLaverty, Greene, Sillitoe, Weldon and Gordimer. What really makes this anthology stand out is the wide range of assignments that follow each story: Close study of the text, close study of the main characters, organising material for an essay, roleplay, letter writing, newspaper reports and many others. (252 pages)
Level: 1.g/HF/C etc.

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This is an international selection of 15 short stories by major modern writers including Peter Carey, Zadie Smith and Bernard Malamud. Featuring the theme of difference, each story has something to say about cultural encounters, often arising from experiences of migration or uprooting. Biographical introduction to each story. Editor: Lynn Prescott. (296 pages)
Level: 2nd year of Gymnasium/B

Contents: The Ultimate Safari (Nadine Gordimer); In Cuba I was a German Shepherd (Ana Menéndez); The Joy Luck Club (extract) (Amy Tan); What Do You Do in San Francisco? (Raymond Carver); Mr Sumarsono (Roxana Robinson); The Last Mohican (Bernard Malamud); The End of the World (Mavis Gallant); The Distant Past (WilliamTrevor); American Dreams (Peter Carey); Bella Makes Life (Lorna Goodison); Martha, Martha (Zadie Smith); Pit Strike (AllanSillitoe); Storm Petrel (Romesh Gunesekera); Squatter (Rohinton Mistry); One Out of Many (V.S.Naipaul).