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New and forthcoming books

Short story collections to watch out for

Just out

The latest book from Anne Enright, winner of last year's Man Booker Prize, is a collection of stories called Taking Pictures (Jonathan Cape). As Hermione Lee wrote in the Guardian on 1 March, 'Every one of these stories takes you to a place you might rather not be in, but which you are drawn in to explore, allured by their dark brilliance'.

Gerard Woodward's new book, Caravan Thieves, is out now, published by Chatto & Windus.

Dream Lover (Bloomsbury) is a selection of William Boyd's short fiction from across his career.

Peter Hobbs's collection I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train has just been published as a cheaper paperback by Faber. Don't miss these extraordianry stories.

Cate Kennedy is highly regarded in her home country of Australia - she has won The Age short story competition twice, and her stories have been published widely (including in the New Yorker in 2006). Although Kennedy's stories are often domestic and local in setting, they are universal and unerringly human in sentiment. Her characters, young and old, speak eloquently of the hidden motivations that propel us all to act, often without realizing it. Dark Roots was published in January.

Forthcoming

Caroline Oulton's Unsafe Attachments explores the relationships of a loosely interlinked group of Londoners (Hutchinson, May).

Christopher Hope's In the Garden of Bad Dreams will be published in May.

August sees the publication of Gerard Donovan's Country of the Grand and the Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore (both Faber).

In October 2008, Jonathan Cape will publish Direct Red by Jessie Corfield, a collection of 12 stories about what it is like to be a surgeon.

In November 2008, Canongate will publish a collection of short stories about the Vietnamese boat people by Vietnamese writer Nam Le. The book's title will be The Boat.