Just out

The BBC National Short Story Award 2008, an anthology of the five stories shortlisted for the 2008 prize, published by Short Books.
Read about the stories and their authors

A big title for September: Fine Just the Way It Is, Annie Proulx's third collection of Wyoming stories, is published by Fourth Estate.

Gerard Donovan's Country of the Grand (Faber). Read our review

Two collections of stories by Francis Wyndham, a former editor at Deutsch. Alan Hollinghurst has written introductions to both The Other Garden and Collected Stories (Picador).

The stories in The Boat, Vietnamese writer Nam Le's debut collection (published by Canongate), span the globe from New York to Colombia to Vietnam.

American writer Donald Ray Pollock's Knockemstiff (Harvill Secker) is 'a pitch-dark and often hilarious collection of stories set in the tiny Appalachian town of Knockemstiff, Ohio, a community so deprived and diminished it no longer appears on any map.'
Read our review
Read an interview with Don Pollock

Say You're One of Them (Abacus) is Uwem Akpan's Caine Prize-shortlisted collection of stories about Africa.

Susan Wicks' new book, Roll Up for the Arabian Derby (bluechrome). Great cover.

Sophie Hannah's latest collection of stories, The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets, is out now, published by Sort Of Books.

And Simon Robson's The Separate Heart and Other Stories is also now out in paperback, from Vintage.

Forthcoming

A Chapter of Hats by Machado de Assis (translated by John Gledson and published by Bloomsbury in September) is a collection of nineteenth-century stories by a Brazilian writer.

In October 2008, Jonathan Cape will publish Direct Red by Jessie Corfield, a collection of 12 stories about what it is like to be a surgeon.

Other October titles: Liver by Will Self (Viking); The Museum of Dr Moses by Joyce Carol Oates (Quercus); and paperback editions of Joe Hill's well-reveiwed 20th Century Ghosts (Gollancz) and Nadine Gordimer's Beethoven was One-Sixteenth Black (Bloomsbury).

Looking ahead to 2009, Faber will publish Kazuo Ishiguro's Five Stories of Music and Nightfall in May. This 'story cycle explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time'.

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