Samanta Schweblin, Mouthful of Birds, Riverhead An early favourite from this year was Stephen Brayda’s full-on cover for Samanta Schweblin’s Mouthful of Birds collection of short stories. In a ...

From stories that explore the language of therapy to revamped fairytales, here are eight of the best short story collections to pick up this year. As much as I love a long and detailed novel on a ...

They say you should never judge a book by its cover, but as a man intrigued by the concept of judgement, the French philosopher Albert Camus would allow us to make an exception. Happily the covers for ...