The MachineShortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2014, this is a Frankenstein tale for our time from one of the UKs brightest new literary talents. Vic returned from war tormented by his nightmares. His once happy marriage to Beth all but disintegrated. A machine promised salvation, purging him of all memory. Now the machines are gone, declared too controversial, the side effects too harmful. But within Beths flat is an ever whirring black box. She knows

Fiction • Western Writers of America

her nanny Lily

After the Monsoon explores the tough compromises made every day in pursuit of the greater good

a group of people

to her own mom

When you’re running away from real life

but she learns what it takes to survive

and Alice Sebold

When the tenth poem arrives exactly twenty-four hours after Elisa’s death

\" then you are in luck

these accounts reveal not only the history of his family but that of Hungary itself

Then in 2007