BBC National Short Story Award 2025
(2025)(A book in the BBC National Short Story Award series)
A collection of stories by Emily Abdeni-Holman, Colwill Brown, Edward Hogan, Caoilinn Hughes and Andrew Miller
A couple recovering from a car accident struggle to learn how to live together in the country of their birth...
An outsider looking for an apartment in an authentic part of Jerusalem finds the bareness of a new flat suddenly overwhelming...
A Parks and Gardens employee adapts to the unwanted company of a teenage temp worker, while grappling with her own private failings...
The stories shortlisted for the 2025 BBC National Short Story Award all feature characters struggling to adjust to new lives, burdened by past relationships as well as by outgrown versions of oneself. Yet within these stories are also moments of hope, humour and defiance that remind us: our narratives are ours to write.
Genre: Literary Fiction
An outsider looking for an apartment in an authentic part of Jerusalem finds the bareness of a new flat suddenly overwhelming...
A Parks and Gardens employee adapts to the unwanted company of a teenage temp worker, while grappling with her own private failings...
The stories shortlisted for the 2025 BBC National Short Story Award all feature characters struggling to adjust to new lives, burdened by past relationships as well as by outgrown versions of oneself. Yet within these stories are also moments of hope, humour and defiance that remind us: our narratives are ours to write.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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