Jackie Sharp: 2 books

How do I start? This book is about a journey, one that took me seventy-five years to take. It all started in Illinois, where I was born in 1941. My first memory was of being locked in a highchair and looking out the door to see the field on fire in the backyard. I was alone, and I was scared. My older...

The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors’ own...