Read an extract from Will Eaves’s short story ‘Murmur’, which has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2017. You can read extracts from all the other nominees on our blog.

Fear of homosexuals is never far from the surface. The few people who have supported me after ...

Read an extract from Helen Oyeyemi’s short story ‘if a book is locked there’s probably a good reason for that, don’t you think?’, which has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2017. You can read extracts from all the other nominees on our blog.

Every time ...

We’re looking forward to welcoming Claire Messud to the Bookshop on Thursday 21 September to discuss her new novel The Burning Girl with Alex Clark. First hailed in the pages of the LRB as ‘a deeply interesting young writer’ by Penelope Fitzgerald, Messud has, says the New York Times, ...