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Stories from the Calais refugee camp form the basis of Breach
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Breach by Olumide Popoola and Annie Holmes – “huddled masses yearning to breathe free”

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Breach is a work of fiction but its origins lie in an all-too real scenario of human tragedy on a

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Sample Sunday is an opportunity to check all the books on my shelves and decide what to keep
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Sample Sunday: Short story collections

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For someone who has never been an eager reader of short stories, I have surprisingly acquired a large number of

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Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro plays on the idea of a song cycle
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Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro: Promise Unfulfilled

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I’m not a great fan of short stories but I thought this year I would push myself to read at

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Cwtch Corner Welsh authors Writing Wales 

Are creative writing courses worth the money?

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Cwtch Corner: where authors from Wales get to talk about their work, what inspires their writing and their favourite authors

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Examples of collections of short stories
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Advice Needed: How Should You Read Short Story Collections?

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I need help. Among my hundreds of unread books I have more than a dozen of short story collections. They’ve

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