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Angela Readman is a twice-shortlisted winner of the Costa Short Story Award. Her debut story collection Don't Try This at Home was published by And Other Stories in 2015. It won The Rubery Book Prize and was shortlisted in the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She also writes poetry, and her collection The Book of Tides was published by Nine Arches in 2016. Something Like Breathing is her first novel.
'Angela Readman's stories are fantastic, delightful gifts.' Toby Litt, author of Hospital and one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists'Angela Readman's prose exhibits two complimentary styles: fabulation is rendered deadpan, while wonderfully inventive similes are used to describe the everyday. Borges, Kafka and Angela Carter will all be reference points, but there is something joyfully distinctive about Readman's voice.' Toby Lichtig, Sunday Telegraph 'Readman writes with precision. Her stories emit suppressed yearning and she makes poignant comments about loneliness, identity, survival. Angela Carter is an obvious influence but fans of Donald Barthelme and Charles Baudelaire will cherish the emergence of a moral absurdist for our times.' Max Liu, The Independent 'A masterclass in the surreal . . . This slim volume shows why she won the Costa Short Story Award.' Max Wallis, 10 Best Spring Reads, The Independent `Sparky, shining writing that zings from the page. Subversive, funny and incisive. A real talent.' Sarah Hilary, author of Someone Else's Skin
