We are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative lack of places in which they can be published, the challenge the medium represents has attracted a host of remarkable, subversive, entertaining and innovative writers. Philip Hensher, following the success of his definitive u003ciu003ePenguin Book of British Short Storiesu003c/iu003e, has scoured a vast trove of material and chosen thirty great stories for this new volume of works written between 1997 and the present day.
