Keyhole Stories is the result of the collaborative effort of 15 writers. We come from a wide variety of back- grounds, but what we have in common is the experience of living in Stockholm for some period of time in our lives, and an interest in writing ction in English. We have all taken creative writing courses at Skrivareakademin at Folkuniversitetet in Stockholm taught by Kevin Frato. It was Kevin who gathered us all in January 2015 and proposed the idea of writing a collection of short ...

"A Norwegian Chandler" JO NESBO"In the best tradition of sleuthery" The Times"One of the finest Nordic novelists in the tradition of Henning Mankell" BARRY FORSHAW, IndependentBergen, Norway. Teenaged girls, many from privileged backgrounds, are being drawn into drugs and prostitution at an astonishing rate. When the local magistrate is discovered dead in a luxury hotel, clad only in...

What Endures is a story of powerful love. It is a story that will break your heart. Inspired by true events, it tells of the incredible bond between a mother and daughter, and with gut-wrenching poignancy reminds us of the little things that make life worth living.“Holdstock’s writing manages to be both heartbreakingly poetic and densely detailed … sad passages, ghostlike recollections, written almost from the vantage point of the present, establish the book as a great wor...

A child is kidnapped with consequences that extend across worlds… A writer reaches into the past to discover the truth about a possible murder… Far away a young woman prepares for her mysterious future…In a future scarred by fracking and ecological collapse, Jenna Hoolman’s world is dominated by illegal smartdog racing: greyhounds genetically modified with human DNA. When her young niece goes missing that world implodes... Christy’s life is dominated by fear of her brother, a man s...

Kate—a wife, a mother of two, and a senior executive at a multinational hotel company—has made caring for others her life's work, and she's good at it. But when she opens her husband's computer to find a series of email exchanges with an unknown woman, it all begins to fall apart. After ten years of marriage, Kate is forced to take a closer look at her relationship with her husband, and she must ask herself: How well do I really know him?Things begin to spiral at work, too,...

2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksandar Hemon's series, and A. S. Byatt represents England among a luminous cast of European contributors. Fans of the series will find everything they've grown to love, while new readers will discover what they've been missing!

Discover 18 short stories from across Stockholm, the Faroe Islands, Denmark, and more in this epic Nordic short story anthology curated by one of Iceland’s most internationally renowned writers.This exquisite anthology collects the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from cosmopolitan Stockholm to the remote Faroe Islands, and from Denmark to Greenland, this unique and compelling volume displays the thrilling diversity of writing from these ...

David Gaffney's compact, surreal tales are filled with poignancy and wit. Each story goes off like a tiny depth charge in the mind, leaving you with the trace memory of some new urban myth - comic, absurd and disturbingly true.

'There is something special about literature . . . that addresses our innermost sexual and amatory selves. Gay stories offer us vindication, fellowship, validation and a sense of shared identity that we need now as much as ever,' writes Stephen Fry in the foreword to this anthology.In this exciting new collection of gay short stories, we hear from authors imagining, surmising, and revealing aspects of gay life from a multitude of perspectives, ages, eras, locations...

A gorgeously romantic short story, part of The Meet Cute series.When her beloved mum dies suddenly, Helena escapes to sunny California. Determined to live for the moment, she puts aside her fears and signs up for the surfing lessons she's always dreamed of – with the added distraction of hunky instructor Ashton.

All the best stories are but one story in reality−the story of escape. It is the only thing whichinterests us all and at all times, how to escape.A.C. BensonEscapist literature is traditionally the domain of well-loved genres. In Escape,we aim to disturb expectations, and to delight. Turn the page and here isexperimentation, here fantasy. Here’s crime, existentialism and romance. Nowan escape artist, now an escapee...

Anytown, England. Jeremy Shepherd has reached post-ambition, giving up the trappings of his London life (flash job, flash cars, even flashier girlfriends) to move back to his home town and his parents' house. By day, he is a low-level civil servant, chained to his desk and content to idle away the hours filing and answering emails. There isn't a lot to do in a small town, but the English are very resourceful and Jeremy quickly finds a hobby that delivers lots of fresh air and exercise. By ...