Comma Press: 74 books

A collection of specially commissioned, urban short stories edited by Ra Page to mark the launch of Comma Press. Featuring: Michael Bracewell, Shelagh Delaney, Paul Morley, Gwendoline Riley, Anthony Wilson, Gerard Woodward, Tariq Mehmood, David Constantine, Clare Pollard, Amanda Dalton,...

A John Latham poem is a like a precipitation: images coalesce around a single memory the way ice crystallises around the smallest particle to form a snowflake; the strange logic that constructs them is unique each time. Passionate, satirical, mysterious, the poems in his sixth collection capture the...

Featuring: Alexei Sayle, Dinesh Allirajah, Valeria Parrella, Pawel Huelle, Adam Kaminski, Peppe Lanzetta, Claudia Parman, Artur Becker, Murathan Mungan, Hatice Meryem, Jean-Claude Izzo and Christian Garcin. The six European port cities known as the ‘Cities on the Edge’ – Liverpool, Bremen,...

Ten of the best Chekhov stories specially selected by the acclaimed author and critic Frank Cottrell Boyce who also provides a critical essay. This edition is part of the new Comma Classics series, launched to celebrate past masters of the short story with structural appreciations by contemporary...

Featuring: Anna Ball, Suzanne Batty, Paul Browney, John Carnahan, Graham English, Tracey Emerson, Crista Ermiya, Thomas Fletcher, Alistair Herbert, Paul Hocker, Alice Kuipers, Adam Marek, Melanie Mauthner, Andy Murray, Gabriella Reed, C.D. Rose, Mandy Sutter, Pat Winslow, Ann Winter, L.E. Yates. Rampaging...

Featuring: Ramsay Campbell, Hanif Kureishi, Jeremy Dyson, Mathew Holness, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Robert Shearman, Chaz Brenchley, Paul Cornell, Christine Poulson, Nicholas Royle, Paul Magrs, Conrad Williams, Emma Unsworth, Lavinia Murray and Maria Roberts. Where does fear lurk in 21st...

Ten of the best Kipling stories, specially selected by the acclaimed author and critic Adam Roberts, who also provides a critical analysis of the form and style of Kipling's work. This edition is part of the new Comma Classics series, launched to celebrate past masters of the short story with...

Ten of the best Mansfield stories specially selected by the acclaimed author and critic Alison MacLeod who also provides a critical essay. This edition is part of the new Comma Classics series, launched to celebrate past masters of the short story with structural appreciations by contemporary practitioners. MacLeod’s...

Featuring: Gyrdir Eliasson (Iceland) - Frode Grytten (Norway) - Micheal O Conghaile (Ireland) - Danielle Picard (France) - Mehmet Zaman Saclioglu (Turkey) - Ingo Schulze (Germany) - Roman Simic (Croatia) - Jean Sprackland (England) - Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) - Mirja Unge (Sweden)  What do we...

** Winner of the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology** ** Featuring 'POSSUM', now a major motion picture starring Sean Harris** Featuring: A.S. Byatt, Christopher Priest, Ramsey Campbell, Etgar Keret, Hanif Kureishi, Sara Maitland, Alison MacLeod, Jane Rogers, Gerard Woodward,...

*Featuring the Runner Up story of the 2009 BBC National Short Story Award* Listen to Sara Maitland discussing Moss Witch with Prof. Tara Shears on BBC Radio 4's Open Book with presenter Mariella Frostrup (scroll to 10 mins in). 'She has built bridges that may tempt new minds across to...

A bank manager arrives at work one day to find himself the new employer of his ex-wife. In the middle of a shift a divorced bus driver abandons his vehicle, to search for his estranged son. Two sisters come to terms with their father’s disappearance with the help of a skeleton called...

Ellipsis is a new set of books celebrating the 'short story sequence' - that interlocking daisy-chain of narrative produced when stories knit together to form a continuum of character or theme. An out-of-season seaside town, a library stocked with memories, a man slowly going mad... Starting...

The latest in Comma’s acclaimed series of short story anthologies, Bracket brings together 20 of the country’s most promising, previously unpublished writers. From the cliffs of Flamborough Head to high rise, inner city madness; from lost loves to the last days of civilisation - the settings and...