Brief Encounters

The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story

By Philip Hensher (ed)

Cold Comfort

Winter

By Ali Smith

Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons

By Melissa Harrison (ed)

Winter

By Karl Ove Knausgaard

Tears for Beers

On Canaan’s Side

By Sebastian Barry

Suffer The Children

The Murderess

By Alexandros Papadiamantis

‘Massacre of Mothers’

The Birth of Love

By Joanna Kavenna

In Byron’s Shadow

Imposture

By Benjamin Markovits

What Was Left Behind

Scenes from Early Life

By Philip Hensher

Kilburn Calling

NW

By Zadie Smith