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Right Date Wrong Guy

by Sarah Schofield ...

Sophie Westacott had it all, a celebrity boyfriend, an inner-city Sydney terrace, a great job at a top-tier law firm, and invitations to A-list events within the tight clique of Sydney’s Beautiful People.But it all slips away when her boyfriend, Connor Bayles, Channel 8’s newsreader, breaks up with her, leaving Sophie to wonder how she ever thought they were the perfect couple.After eight years of ... Read more

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Sophie Westacott had it all, a celebrity boyfriend, an inner-city Sydney terrace, a great job at a top-tier law firm, and invitations to A-list events within the tight clique of Sydney’s Beautiful People.But it all slips away when her boyfriend, Connor Bayles, Channel 8’s newsreader, breaks up with her, leaving Sophie to wonder how she ever thought they were the perfect couple.After eight years of
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Solo

by Sarah Schofield ...

Excerpt:I looked past Gramps and saw my grandmother with her arms firmly crossed. She wasn't your typical grandma. You know, the kind with fresh baked pies sitting on the windowsill. My grandmother was... Well, she was more like a warden.I slowly approached her."Hello, Eliana." She awkwardly gave me a half-pat-on-the-back kind of hug."Hi, Grandma; thanks for taking us in." I tried to chisel ... Read more

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Excerpt:I looked past Gramps and saw my grandmother with her arms firmly crossed. She wasn't your typical grandma. You know, the kind with fresh baked pies sitting on the windowsill. My grandmother was... Well, she was more like a warden.I slowly approached her."Hello, Eliana." She awkwardly gave me a half-pat-on-the-back kind of hug."Hi, Grandma; thanks for taking us in." I tried to chisel
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Duo

by Sarah Schofield ...

Excerpt:We broke through the surface and inhaled deep breaths. "Nice try, hon. Next time make sure I don't have a grip on you." He kissed the tip of my nose and removed his arm from my waist."Okay. I'll be sure and remember that." I swam backwards toward shore and Lucas followed. I came out of the river first and squeezed the water out of my hair while I waited for Lucas.Sasha and some of the ... Read more

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Excerpt:We broke through the surface and inhaled deep breaths. "Nice try, hon. Next time make sure I don't have a grip on you." He kissed the tip of my nose and removed his arm from my waist."Okay. I'll be sure and remember that." I swam backwards toward shore and Lucas followed. I came out of the river first and squeezed the water out of my hair while I waited for Lucas.Sasha and some of the
... Read more
Monster Capital

Tales of Capitalist Unease

by David Sue, Ra Page, Lillian Weezer, Kiare Ladner, Jess Glaisher, Xan Brooks, Adam Marek, Andy Hedgecock, Sarah Schofield, Luan Goldie, Ian Carrington, Brontë Schiltz, Sanjida Kay, Christine Poulson, Matthew Holness ...

There is something monstrous about capital, something alive and creeping about it. It’s been compared to a parasite, a vampire, a zombie-maker; one that transforms human lives into dead labour, and marshals all creative, free-thinking individuality into the long trudge that is work, money-making, aspiration. The philosopher Mark Fisher famously compared capital to the alien in John Carpenter’s The ... Read more

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There is something monstrous about capital, something alive and creeping about it. It’s been compared to a parasite, a vampire, a zombie-maker; one that transforms human lives into dead labour, and marshals all creative, free-thinking individuality into the long trudge that is work, money-making, aspiration. The philosopher Mark Fisher famously compared capital to the alien in John Carpenter’s The
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Best British Short Stories 2020

by Nicholas Royle, Richard Lawrence Bennett, Luke Brown, David Constantine, Tim Etchells, Nicola Freeman, Amanthi Harris, Andrew Hook, Sonia Hope, Hanif Kureishi, Helen Mort, Jeff Noon, Irenosen Okojie, K. J. Orr, Bridget Penney, Diana Powell, David Rose, Sarah Schofield, Adrian Slatcher, N. J. Stallard, Robert Stone, Stephen Thompson, Zakia Uddin ...

Series series Best British Short Stories
The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its tenth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This new series 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, ... Read more

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The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its tenth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This new series 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,
... Read more
Conradology

A celebration of the work of Joseph Conrad

by Paul Theroux, Kamila Shamsie, Wojciech Orlinski, Sarah Schofield, Zoe Gilbert, Farah Ahamed, Grazyna Plebanek, SJ Bradley, Agnieszka Dale, Giles Foden, Jacek Dukaj, Jan Krasnowolski, Dr Richard Niland, Prof Robert Hampson ...

A merchant sailor works for a decade, captaining a yacht up and down the coasts of Malaysia, in the hope that his crooked employer will stay true to a promise...Years after a pandemic sweeps across Europe, wiping out its all-white population, a pilgrim returns to his Polish birthplace in search of the only other non-white kid he knew at school...An inscrutable hotelier loses his composure when a ... Read more

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A merchant sailor works for a decade, captaining a yacht up and down the coasts of Malaysia, in the hope that his crooked employer will stay true to a promise...Years after a pandemic sweeps across Europe, wiping out its all-white population, a pilgrim returns to his Polish birthplace in search of the only other non-white kid he knew at school...An inscrutable hotelier loses his composure when a
... Read more
Safely Gathered In

by Sarah Schofield ...

A woman grows increasingly annoyed by her husband’s emails, offering advice and reminders even months after his death…A taxidermist dreams of preserving one of his clients after she takes him out for a coffee…A grieving nurse is troubled by her daughter’s fascination with The Iron Lady…In Safely Gathered In, Sarah Schofield probes at the heart of what forms us and what we, in turn, form. The ... Read more

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A woman grows increasingly annoyed by her husband’s emails, offering advice and reminders even months after his death…A taxidermist dreams of preserving one of his clients after she takes him out for a coffee…A grieving nurse is troubled by her daughter’s fascination with The Iron Lady…In Safely Gathered In, Sarah Schofield probes at the heart of what forms us and what we, in turn, form. The
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The New Abject

Tales of Modern Unease

by Ramsey Campbell, Mark Haddon, Lara Williams, Margaret Drabble, David Constantine, Saleem Haddad, Matthew Holness, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Gerard Woodward, Sarah Schofield, Mike Nelson, Alan Beard, Bernardine Bishop, Adam Marek, Gaia Holmes, Paul Theroux, Christine Poulson, Karen Featherstone, Meave Haughey ...

Series series Comma Modern Horror
SOMETHING HAS FALLEN AWAY.We have lost a part of ourselves, our history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch. This is the horror of the abject.Following the success of Comma’s award-winning New Uncanny anthology, The New Abject invites leading authors to respond to two parallel theories of the abject – Julia ... Read more

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SOMETHING HAS FALLEN AWAY.We have lost a part of ourselves, our history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch. This is the horror of the abject.Following the success of Comma’s award-winning New Uncanny anthology, The New Abject invites leading authors to respond to two parallel theories of the abject – Julia
... Read more
Audiobook

1. A desert night

by Sarah Schofield, Andrew Coombs ...

Narrated by Sarah Schofield, Andrew Coombs ...

Series Audiobook 1 - English shorts - Stories to improve your English
Unabridged

10 min

Driving, driving, driving. It's dark in the desert. Just how I like it. No one around for miles and miles. Me and the stars. The stars and me. And the road moving, snaking and flowing to the future. My new future. Listen, enjoy and learn through story. "English shorts – Stories to improve your English" come in three levels. This story is level 1. *=My English is ok ** = My English is good *** = My ... Read more

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Driving, driving, driving. It's dark in the desert. Just how I like it. No one around for miles and miles. Me and the stars. The stars and me. And the road moving, snaking and flowing to the future. My new future. Listen, enjoy and learn through story. "English shorts – Stories to improve your English" come in three levels. This story is level 1. *=My English is ok ** = My English is good *** = My
... Read more
Audiobook

2. Pat and Alex

by Sarah Schofield, Andrew Coombs ...

Narrated by Sarah Schofield, Andrew Coombs ...

Series Audiobook 2 - English shorts - Stories to improve your English
Unabridged

22 min

What can you say about love? It's everything when you have it and even more when you don't. I had it, then lost it – I know what both feels like. Listen, enjoy and learn through story. "English shorts – Stories to improve your English" come in three levels. This story is level 1. *=My English is ok ** = My English is good *** = My English is excellent ... Read more

$6.99 USD

What can you say about love? It's everything when you have it and even more when you don't. I had it, then lost it – I know what both feels like. Listen, enjoy and learn through story. "English shorts – Stories to improve your English" come in three levels. This story is level 1. *=My English is ok ** = My English is good *** = My English is excellent
... Read more
Audiobook

3. Forgotten Future

by Sarah Schofield, Andrew Coombs ...

Narrated by Sarah Schofield, Andrew Coombs ...

Series Audiobook 3 - English shorts - Stories to improve your English
Unabridged

38 min

At first, Jim is excited by the new job his friend Magda offers him. But when the job is done, they meet a stranger on the road. Someone who turns everything upside down. Listen, enjoy and learn through story. "English shorts – Stories to improve your English" come in three levels. This story is level 1. *=My English is ok ** = My English is good *** = My English is excellent ... Read more

$6.99 USD

At first, Jim is excited by the new job his friend Magda offers him. But when the job is done, they meet a stranger on the road. Someone who turns everything upside down. Listen, enjoy and learn through story. "English shorts – Stories to improve your English" come in three levels. This story is level 1. *=My English is ok ** = My English is good *** = My English is excellent
... Read more
Audiobook

7. The Duch

by Sarah Schofield, Andrew Coombs ...

Narrated by Sarah Schofield, Andrew Coombs ...

Series Audiobook 7 - English shorts - Stories to improve your English
Unabridged

1 hour 5 min

Janek sat up in bed and looked at the smoking curtains. He coughed. Was he still asleep? Curls of smoke drifted upwards from the base of the curtains. There was something else. A shadow man. The same one that was in his dream. No face at all – staring at him from the curtains. Listen, enjoy and learn through story. "English shorts – Stories to improve your English" come in three levels. This story ... Read more

$6.99 USD

Janek sat up in bed and looked at the smoking curtains. He coughed. Was he still asleep? Curls of smoke drifted upwards from the base of the curtains. There was something else. A shadow man. The same one that was in his dream. No face at all – staring at him from the curtains. Listen, enjoy and learn through story. "English shorts – Stories to improve your English" come in three levels. This story
... Read more

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