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  I Hear You

  Paul McVeigh

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  Irish Times: Books to Look Out for in 2025
  This collection of stories, written especially for BBC Radio 4, includes a ten-part sequence: 'The Circus', set around Cliftonville Circus, where five roads meet in North Belfast.
  It's five minutes from the nationalist Troubles flashpoint of Ardoyne, where Paul grew up. It's close to Holy Cross Girls' School, where protests targeting primary school children drew international attention. The Circus is situated in the poorest part of Belfast – it is also the most divided.
  Each road leads to a different area – a different class – a different religion. The Circus explores where old Belfast clashes with the new around acceptance, change, class and diversity. But this is 2024 and a fresh energy exists.
  Other stories include 'Tickles', a story about a man visiting his mother in a dementia ward where he finds he is the one who had forgotten important things; 'Cuckoo', about a man's collapse and surgery – where he feels something more sinister has happened to him; and 'Daddy Christmas', where a gay man writes a letter to the son he never had.

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  Edward

  Mai Redding

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  Edward Shoebridge unnerved all who knew him. His eerie stillness and cold curiosity set him apart from others, his fascination with suffering growing more sinister over time. Animals fled from him, servants whispered of curses, and those who crossed his path found themselves trapped in his cruel games. 
  Mai Redding, both the author and narrator of this chilling tale, is a storyteller fascinated by gothic fiction and the unexplained. With a keen eye for atmospheric horror, she weaves haunting narratives that blur the line between reality and legend. Her immersive storytelling draws readers into eerie worlds.

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  A Little Bit More

  John R Little

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  The Collected Short Fiction of John R Little, fully illustrated black & white paperback and full-color hardcover editions.  
  Illustrations by Luke Spooner, with new story introductions by John R Little.  
  This volume contains 10 stories. A Little Bit More is Volume 3 of a four-part series.  
  Introduction by John R Little 
  Secrets 
  Second Chance 
  The Goldilocks Zone 
  The Exchange 
  The First Lunar Halloween 
  Demon Air 
  Memories 
  The Rules 
  Anniversary 
  By Insanity of Reason (with Lisa Morton)

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  Edgar Allan Poe - Six of the...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
   1 - Six of the Best - Edgar Allan Poe - An Introduction 
  2 - Edgar Allan Poe - An Introduction 
  3 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  4 - The Fall of the House of Usher - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  5 - The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe 
  6 - The Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe 
  7 - The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe 
  8 - The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe 
  9 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe 
  10 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

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  Am I Just A Shadow You Drew? -...

  Rachel Lawson

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  When a routine magical event backfires Lance, the Necromancer finds himself in strange world where he discovers he's only a figment of an author's mind. 
  Also in this audio book The Haunting of the Necromancer, a hilarious comedy of a dysfunctional family. Will Lance ever lose the ghost who made his living room his home. 
  Some more good short stories from series in book too.

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  Walking on Cowrie Shells - Stories

  Nana Nkweti

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  In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti's virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of genre. In the Caine Prize finalist story "It Takes a Village, Some Say," Nkweti skewers racial prejudice and the practice of international adoption, delivering a sly tale about a teenage girl who leverages her adoptive parents to fast-track her fortunes. In "The Devil Is a Liar," a pregnant pastor's wife struggles with the collision of western Christianity and her mother's traditional Cameroonian belief system as she worries about her unborn child. 
   
   
   
  In other stories, Nkweti vaults past realism, upending genre expectations in a satirical romp about a jaded PR professional trying to spin a zombie outbreak in West Africa, and in a mermaid tale about a Mami Wata who forgoes her power by remaining faithful to a fisherman she loves. In between these two ends of the spectrum there's everything from an aspiring graphic novelist at a comic con to a murder investigation driven by statistics to a story organized by the changing hairstyles of the main character. 
   
   
   
  A dazzling, inventive debut, Walking on Cowrie Shells announces the arrival of a superlative new voice.

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