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 Book of Gaza
This anthology brings together some of the pioneers of the Gazan short story from that era, as well as younger exponents of the form, with ten stories that offer glimpses of life in the Strip that go beyond the global media headlines.
Under the Dam
Entering Constantine’s stories is like stepping out into a wind of words, a swarm of language. His prose is as fluid as the water that surges and swells through all his landscapes.
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.
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.