Best British Short Stories 2020

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PUBLISHED BY SALT PUBLISHING 2020

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Selection and introduction © Nicholas Royle, 2020

Individual contributions © the contributors, 2020

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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