“There Or Not There”, a story extracted from Claire Carroll’s debut short story collection, The Unreliable Nature Writer, has appeared in The London Magazine. You can read the story here.

The Unreliable Nature Writer comprises 18 stories with themes of late capitalism, climate anxiety and personal loss, and will be released by Scratch Books on 6th June 2024.

The collection includes brand-new stories alongside previously published works such as The White Review Short Story Prize-shortlisted My Brain is Boiling with Ideas, in which a woman begins an affair with an android. Claire’s short fiction and poetry have previously been published by journals including The London Magazine, Gutter, perverse, Lunate, The Oxonian Review, and Short Fiction.

The Unreliable Nature Writer will be released on 6th June. Pre-order your copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

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