Comma Press
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Bringing together fiction from celebrated writers, The Book of Beijing is an anthology of short stories charting the social and and cultural change of Beijing over the last fifty years, creating a literary map of the city.
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Ma is Scared is the long-overdue debut of Anjali Kajal in English, representing the best of her short fiction, written and published over the last twenty years.
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Covering US foreign policy from 1945 to the present day, an anthology of specially commissioned stories by authors from across the globe addressing America's history of intervention.
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Kurdistan +100 ; Stories from a Future State
Sema Kaygusuz, Meral Simsek, Muharrem Erbey, Huseyin Karabey, Nariman Evdike, Omer Dilsoz, Yildiz Cakar, Qadir Agid
- Comma press
- 15 Juin 2023
- 9781912697366
The third instalment of Comma's popular series showcasing science fiction stories from the Middle East, this time asking the authors to write stories set 100 years after the Mahabad, home of the short-lived Republic.
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The Book of Tokyo ; A City in Short Fiction
Banana Yoshimoto, Shuichi Yoshida, Nao-Cola Yamazaki, Hiromi Kawakami, Hitomi Kanehara, Mitsuyo Kakuta, Toshiyuki Horie, Osamu Hashimoto, Hideo Furukawa
- Comma press
- 26 Mars 2015
- 9781905583577
A unique anthology of ten stories set in the dazzling metropolis of contemporary Tokyo, translated into English for the first time.
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As part of a unique collaboration, this book pairs a team of award-winning authors with CERN physicists to explore some of the consequences of what the LHC is learning, through fiction.
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Each story in Sara Maitland's collection enacts a daring kind of alchemy, fusing together raw elements of scientific theory with ancient myth, folkloric archetype and contemporary storytelling. All the more remarkable is that each of these stories sprang from a conversation with a scientist and grew directly out of cutting-edge research.
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The Drone Eats with Me ; Diaries from a City Under Fire
Atef Abu Saif
- Comma press
- 31 Mars 2015
- 9781905583713
On 7 July 2014 Israel launched a major offensive against the Gaza Strip, lasting 51 days, killing 2145 Palestinians and demolishing 17,200 homes. Here, Atef's diaries of the war show the full extent of that summer's atrocities from the most humble of perspectives: that of a father, fearing for his family's safety, in a one-sided war.
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The BBC National Short Story Award 2021
Richard Smyth, Lucy Caldwell, Rory Gleeson, Georgina Harding, Danny Rhodes
- Comma press
- 13 Septembre 2021
- 9781912697496
The stories shortlisted for the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University take place in liminal spaces - their characters find themselves in transit, travelling along flight paths, train lines and roads, or in moments where new opportunities or directions suddenly seem possible.
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Featuring poems of hope, remembrance and aspiration, celebrating the textures and colours of urban life, this is the fourth collection of poems from the Orange Prize short-listed author and acclaimed performer.
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The latest edition to Comma's popular Reading the City series. Ten short stories by ten Bristolian writers.
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The BBC NSSA is one of the most prestigious prizes for a single short story, with the winning author receiving GBP15,000, and four further shortlisted authors GBP600 each.
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Originally published in 1949, Tomato Cain and Other Stories is the sole collection of short fiction by screenwirter Nigel Kneale. This new edition is published to mark the centenary of Kneale's birth, uniting the stories from both the original UK and US editions for the first time ever.
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All Walls Collapse ; Stories of Separation
Muyesser Abdul'ehed, Zahra El Hasnaoui Ahmed, Maya Abu Al-Hayat, Larissa Boehning, Rezuwan Khan, Kyung-Sook Shin, Paulo Scott, Geetanjali Shree
- Comma press
- 30 Juin 2022
- 9781912697571
All Walls Collapse brings together 11 acclaimed writers from across the world to explore the impact of walls, barriers, partitions and borders on people's lives, as well as their communities.
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Described as one of the as one of the UK's finest short story writers, Constantine intricately interweaves fictional characters and events with the real to create new ways of seeing and connecting our past, present and possible futures.
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In Safely Gathered In, Sarah Schofield probes at the heart of what forms us and what we, in turn, form. The stories collected here expose the spaces that words often fail to reach and examine how objects - both manmade and natural - can reflect the darkest manifestations of grief and disconnection.
