Due to popular demand, Claire Carroll‘s debut short story collection, The Unreliable Nature Writer, is being reprinted. Published last month by Scratch Books, The Unreliable Nature Writer has garnered praise from BBC National Short Story Award-winner Saba Sams, who described it as “ominous yet deeply tender, surreal yet undeniable”.  Scratch Books thanked “all the good bookshops who’ve been selling it so brilliantly”.

In a grand mansion, a woman recounts a dream of social stability and home ownership to a bizarre tribunal who will determine her future.

At a campsite, ordinary families swarm to pass their sweltering summer holiday – and just off the coast, the rich and powerful enjoy a different kind of holiday from static cruise ships.

In suburbia, a woman, a beloved wife and mother, begins an affair with the humanoid robot her husband has brought home.

In this debut collection of short stories, Claire Carroll plunges us into darkly funny visions of a near future, where late capitalism, climate anxiety and personal loss intersect.

The Unreliable Nature Writer is out now. Get your copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

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