News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

• home
• browse books
• book details:

The BBC National Short Story Award 2019

by Nikki Bedi (Editor) - £7.99  Comma Press (2019)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781912697229 | ISBN 10: 191269722x

Featuring Lucy Caldwell, Lynda Clark, Jacqueline Crooks, Tamsin Grey & Jo Lloyd.
 
Including the winning story, 'The Invisible' by Jo Lloyd!
 
A young boy takes delight in his mother’s ability to shapeshift from one animal to another, only realising how odd she is when it comes to parents’ evening...
 
The values of a small farming village are challenged by talk of a well-heeled community living on the other side of the lake that only one person can see...
 
A writer researching the life of a 19th century child custody reformer discovers all too many parallels between that century and ours...
 
The stories shortlisted for the 2019 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University variously explore the sanctity of the home and family, and the instinct to defend what’s closest to us. Against a backdrop of danger or division, characters sometimes struggle – like the 15-year-old charged with looking after her siblings whilst her mother works through the night – and sometimes succumb – like the young woman who allows herself to be manipulated by an older, richer man. But in each case, these stories demonstrate what Nikki Bedi argues in her introduction: short stories are not a warm-up act, they’re the main event.

(Price & availability last checked: November 2019)

Order by email

×

The BBC National Short Story Award 2019 - by Nikki Bedi (Editor)

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates

Select type of order: Collect & pay in the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send me a card payment link Mail-order - I will pay another way & give details in the notes section

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):

Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Close

Enquire about this book

×

The BBC National Short Story Award 2019

by Nikki Bedi (Editor)

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):

Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order? Select type of order : Collect from the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send by post

Close

Featured book: Recommended Fiction & Poetry for Yuletide 2019!,
In booklists: Short Story Collections and Novellas,
In categories: Fiction,