HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Five Different Stories About One Thing by @elizabethbaines.bsky.social, with images by Laura Scott – the 7th in our series of collaborations between writers & artists. Available from our online shop for the special price of £7 (+ p&p) till midnight: www.confingopublishing.uk
It's publication day for Five Different Stories About One Thing, and here's a lovely insightful review from Jackie Law at never Imitate.
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Recommended reading, and a beautiful little book.
‘“The Hands” moves from the slightly mysterious to the downright sinister’ - Anna Aslanyan reviews Paris Fantastique by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social for @thetls.bsky.social
Sick of Christmas carols? Tune in to hear me read 'The Place to Hide a Body', and eleven other stories read by their authors.
With excellent and funny intro by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social
Glad to be part of the story!
My Christmas poem from first collection, A Lift of Wings, IDP 2014.
New Episode!
Listen to @nicholasroyle.bsky.social talk about his latest short story collection “Paris Fantastique” (@confingopublishing.bsky.social), his passion for second-hand books and much more!
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HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY to Paris Fantastique by Nicholas Royle, the third and final volume in his series of story collections inspired by cities in which he has lived. Fourteen stories, including eleven that are brand new. Available for £9.50 (plus p&p): www.confingopublishing.uk/shop
Macguffin in the oven?
Recipe for a Ghost!
Read it again this morning - it's an excellent story.
Another unusually surprising story was Ian Critchley’s, ‘Ghost Walks’, telling the story of a woman having a moment of Déjà vu as she revisits York, where she once spent her student days and met her future husband. What, at surface level, can be read as a deceptively simple ghost story turns into a complex exploration of identity, marriage and retrospection on the lives we thought we would live in the halcyon days of youth.
Very grateful to @manchesterreview.bsky.social for these lovely comments about my story 'Ghost Walks' in their review of Best British Short Stories 2025 @saltpublishing.com www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063
Now available from @saltpublishing.com and other places
A bright orange copy of Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by Nicholas Royle, stood on an orange metal railing of a bench, the slats of which are rich mahogany-looking wood.
Delighted to have my copy of @saltpublishing.com’s Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by the indefatigable @nicholasroyle.bsky.social, who in his wide-ranging and goodness-filled introduction very generously bigs up the “brilliant idea” of A Personal Anthology, my online short story project.
Lovely review of Best British Short Stories 2025 up at @manchesterreview.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com www.themanchesterreview.co.uk?p=13063
Celebration day for editor, Nicholas Royle and all the contributors of Best British Short Stories 2025! 🥳🎉🎈🥂
An Orange Back Ground, with Bold White Writing, giving the books title and editor.
Best British Short Stories 2025, edited by Nicholas Royle, reviewed by Paul Anthony Knowles and Sam Cassells
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With one from me. Proud to be in the catch for 2025!
It has arrived! The nation’s favourite short story anthology in a new shiny livery — grab yours now!
2026 will see a major expansion of Salt's list – including four new poetry collections, a new volume of short stories and, of course, the sixteenth edition of Best British Short Stories.
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Short Story Feature
New on House Magazine: a brilliant new short story by @elizabethstott.bsky.social exploring open-plan offices, death and meetings. Dive in now.
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Glad to be one of the crew on this ship (with my story ‘When viewed from the head rather than the foot’). Pre-order details below.
Thrilled & honoured to have won this!
