You will find in my online store (and on displays in my physical store) curations by writers for readers, a list of books from the genre they write in – or feel passionately about for other reasons – that they desperately wish to press into readers’ hands.

These are the books that they guard on their bedside table, the books they buy again and again for their friends, the books that they recommend for entry level into a particular genre, or incredible finds for those who are already well-read in that area. I am sure within every curation you will learn something new, but even better than that, those same writers met with me to tell you just why they love the books that they’ve picked.

In the video below you will hear from Sarah Salway, a novelist, poet, short story writer and prize-winning flash fiction writer, and she is also local to Tunbridge Wells where my bookstore is based. In this interview she talks about what short story writing means to her, and why she wishes to press these four books in particular into your hands.

Included in the short story bundle:

Not Sorry by Sarah Salway

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez

Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell

• Listed price is for the books only. Click here to buy the bundle.