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Instruction Manual for Swallowing
Welcome to the surreal, misshapen universe of Adam Marek’s first collection; a bestiary of hybrids from the techno-crazed future and mythical past.
Thought X: Fictions and Hypotheticals
An anthology of specially-commissioned stories exploring thought experiments and their use in science to crack fundamental problems.
The Book of Liverpool
Bringing together fiction from some of the city’s most celebrated writers, The Book of Liverpool traces the unique contours that decades of social and economic change can impress on a city.
Tea at the Midland
The characters in David Constantine’s fourth collection are often delicately caught in moments of defiance. Constantine’s bewitching, finely-wrought stories give us permission to escape.
Recent Releases
The Book of Birmingham
Part of Comma’s award-winning ‘Reading the City’ series, featuring landmark local talent from Birmingham’s burgeoning book scene.
The BBC National Short Story Award 2018
The thirteenth year of the esteemed BBC prize shortlist, this year introduced by head judge Stig Abell.
Where the Road Runs Out
Third collection from acclaimed contemporary female poet Gaia Holmes.
The New Uncanny
14 leading authors have here been challenged to write fresh fictional interpretations of what the uncanny might mean in the 21st century, to update Freud’s famous checklist of what gives us the creeps, and to give the hulking canon of uncanny fiction a shot in the arm, a shock to the neck-bolts...
Take a peek at some of Comma's forthcoming titles.
Bestselling
Refugee Tales
Fourteen stories exploring real life refugee experiences, told in the style of the Canterbury Tales
The Iraqi Christ
From legends of the desert to horrors of the forest, Blasim’s stories blend the fantastic with the everyday, the surreal with the all-too-real.
In Another Country: Selected Stories
Gathering together stories from over two decades of writing, this selection demonstrates why Constantine has been hailed as ‘perhaps the finest of contemporary writers in this form’. Featuring the story that inspired the motion picture, 45 Years.
Protest: Stories of Resistance
The paperback edition of our bestselling anthology of British protest inspired short stories.
BBC Short Story Award
Now in its thirteenth year, the Award is one of the most prestigious for a single short story.
Reading The City
Celebrating the best short stories from cities in the UK and from around the world.