I have recently started reading short stories at lunch time but am starting to run out of reading material! Can anyone suggest any good short story collections?

The ones I have are:

The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets - Sophie Hannah

Twisted – Jeffrey Deaver

Some Rain Must Fall – Michael Faber

This Year it will be Different – Maeve Binchy

Nightmares and Dreamscapes – Stephen King

Everything’s Eventual - Stephen King

Four Past Midnight - Stephen King

Hearts in Atlantis - Stephen King

Skeleton Crew - Stephen King

Different Seasons - Stephen King

 

Paula, I have Smile - Deborah Moggach if u wanna have that. I read it last month and its a few short stories in a book. I will see whatelse I have and will send on to u hun xx

Jeffrey Deaver has a follow up - More Twisted.

Jeffery Archer writes good shorties too and has several anthologies (there might be one on my swap list??)

Daphne du Maurier has a couple of collections.

Joanne Harris - Jigs and Reels.

I've been acquiring quite a few collections myself and would be happy to lend you any you want.  If you look on my TBR they are marked (SS) (I will just check it is up to date in this regard).

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Paula, I have Smile - Deborah Moggach if u wanna have that. I read it last month and its a few short stories in a book. I will see whatelse I have and will send on to u hun xx

thanks Fi, have a look at my swaps and see if there is anything you fancy (I don't think I've got anything on your wishlist tho).

Thanks to Lisa and Wendy for the tips, I've made myself a little list. I'm not in any rush to borrow any (thanks Wendy), I just wanted a few ideas.

At the moment I'm either reading short stories or light reading at lunch times.

Here's a link to a RiSi Search with plenty of choice:  http://www.readitswapit.co.uk/TheLibrary.aspx?SearchType=All&txtSearch=short+stories&SearchCategoryID=&btnGo=Go

 

 William Trevor is a good short story author.

Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories is a good read.  Might not be to everyone's taste as its a retelling of fairy tales for adults but I really enjoyed it

Not The End Of The World by Kate Atkinson  (6 copies available) A stunning collection of thoughtful and highly readable short stories by Whitbread Award-winner, Kate Atkinson.What is the real world? Does it exist, or is it merely a means of keeping another...

 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill

There's a series from Telegram books of short stories by women from different countries that I've been enjoying, there is a full list of the titles here.

I'm currently part way through The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales, varied lengths, some more childish and others more adult, many are brilliantly funny.

How To Breathe Underwater: Stories by Julie Orringer  (7 copies available) Nine brave, wise, and spellbinding stories make up this award-winning debut. In "When She is Old and I Am Famous" a young woman confronts the inscrutable power of her cousin's beauty. In "Note to... read more

Nocturnes by John Connolly  

Great creepy stories!  

Alexi Sayle, Ali Smith, Alan Sillitoe and the aforementioned Kate Atkinson