Rob Shearman's recommendations & comments

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My vote goes for Alison Macleod's 'Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction', which is one of the best short story collections I've read in years. Her tales just keep on surprising - they're by turns very funny, very strange, but ultimately very moving. Too often you can feel with a collection you're just reading a bunch of stories which have been stuck together - but not here, where as you read you keep finding that these odd little tales of love and lust keep bouncing off each other, until the final story has the punch that makes you feel as if you've just read a novel. Wonderful.