Time Out Book of Paris Short Stories

Time Out anthologies

by Nicholas Royle (Editor / Translator), Toby Litt (Contributor), Michèle Roberts (Contributor)

Contents
Introduction · Nicholas Royle
Paris · Patricia Duncker
Une étrange aventure de Richard Blaine · Kim Newman
Rosebud · Maureen Freely
The Barge · Didier Daeninckx (translated by Nicholas Royle)
Story to be translated from English into French and then translated back (without reference to the original) · Toby Litt
Fluency · Michèle Roberts
The Events · Edward Fox
The Convalescents · Ron Butlin
I Love Paris · Marie Darrieussecq (translated by Nicholas Royle)
Debauchery · Adam Thorpe
Seven Stations in the Paris Whirlwind · Michel Butor
The Taste of Apricots: une histoire de fantômes · Erica Wagner
The Storm · Patrick Smith
Speak to me · Linda Lê (translated by Nicholas Royle)
The Great Book · Ismail Kadare; trans. by Helen Constantine
Paris noir · Marc Werner
The Wishbone Bag · Chris Kenworthy

Genres: Short Stories

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Nicholas Royle is an English writer. He is the author of seven novels, two novellas and a short story collection. He has edited sixteen anthologies of short stories. A senior lecturer in creative writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, he also runs Nightjar Press, publishing original short stories as signed, limited-edition chapbooks. He works as a fiction reviewer for The Independent and the Warwick Review and as an editor for Salt Publishing.