Category: Single Authors

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION*

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WILLIAM SAROYAN foreign PRIZE FOR WRITING*

Named a top e-book of 2017 by means of The San Francisco Chronicle

Named one of Electric Literature’s 15 most sensible brief tale Collections of 2017

A stunningly unique debut assortment approximately lives throughout background marked through violence and longing.

A brother and sister flip outlaw in a wild and brutal panorama. The daughter of a diplomat disappears and resurfaces the world over as a dangerous girl of many names. a tender Philadelphia boy struggles with the contradictions of privilege, violence, and the sway of an incarcerated father. A monk in 16th century England suffers the dissolution of his monastery and the lack of all that he held sacred.

The characters in The guy Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead, Benz's wildly creative debut, are as diverse as any in contemporary literature, yet they percentage a thirst for experience which sends them speeding full-tilt towards the ethical crossroads, changing into sufferers and perpetrators alongside the way in which. Riveting, visceral, and heartbreaking, Benz’s tales of identification, abandonment, and fierce love come jointly in a bold, arresting vision.

Poor Folk
The Double
Notes From The Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Gambler
The Idiot
The Possessed (The Devils)
A uncooked Youth
The Dream of a daft Man
The Brothers Karamazov

"She appeared up and smiled. She had a face of feral sweetness, its colour yellow; her eyes have been lengthy and darkish, her mouth a taut bow, her nostrils upturned as though she have been scenting the wind."

In "How Shall i do know You?," a melancholic and unwell author reluctantly travels east of London to offer a lecture prior to a literary society. Mr. Simister, the organization's secretary, lures the world-weary novelist grew to become biographer with offers of a modest stipend and accommodation at an enthralling bed-and-breakfast for her difficulty. however, on that wet day she meets Mr. Simister on the teach station, she wonders why she ever agreed to come back within the first position. riding previous steel-shuttered home windows and Day-Glo banners, Mr. Simister takes the author to her lodge for the night, which seems to be crumbling and remoted instead of picturesque. As she crosses the edge into the dank stench of Eccles apartment she is confronted with the feral porter, Louise, and suffers via a night that could be greater than she bargained for.

From Hilary Mantel's outstanding and darkly comedian number of modern tales, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, comes a story advised along with her specific mixture of subversive wit and gimlet-eyed characterization. "How Shall i do know You?" showcases the extreme genius of Hilary Mantel, referred to as certainly one of our "greatest dwelling novelists" (NPR).

The incomparable Ray Bradbury is within the driver's seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable tours via delusion, time and reminiscence, and there are surprises ready round each curve and at the back of every one mile marker. the adventure provides to be a memorable one.

When I entered the bridal shop as a opt to my sister, I didn’t count on to determine my past love, Brooklyn, in a marriage dress.

I’d allow her cross, i assumed it used to be the best factor to do again then. Now, she’s approximately to marry an individual else.

I deserve the heartache, i do know do.

For a second, she turns to me, her smile falters, surprise replaces it, and worry strangles any phrases i would have said.

I was once a boy whilst I walked away, now I’m a guy. a guy with one billion greenback enterprise that is familiar with no worry. worry used to be anything i assumed I’d left at the back of me.

I are looking to say anything to her, whatever that might make her mine back. in its place, i attempt to stroll away. awareness stops me; she’s approximately to be someone’s bride, and that i can’t enable that move. no longer if there’s nonetheless an opportunity i may make her mine.

It’s time to enable the previous cross and take what must have been mine. yet she’s gone...just like she used to be six years in the past. i must locate her, sooner than it’s too late...

Author's Note:
This is a standalone novel, without dishonest and a contented ever after romance story.