This fourth annual collection of short stories in English by writers not American contains, for the first time, more than twenty stories.

"This collection of 25 short stories written in English by non-Americans represents a wide range of writers working in all genres. Some of these writers are well known and widely published; others have just begun their writing careers." Library Journal"

This is the sixth annual collection of stories we consider to be the best by British and Commonwealth writers since our last volume. The two Irish writers we include, even the solitary Scot, will have gown wryly used to being classed British. But these days it edges towards the patronising to assume that the two Canadians chosen, the New Zealander and the South African, are still largely part of the same broad culture which of the English-speaking peoples excludes only America. Yet for literary purposes (including publishing) so things stand, even when these writers are busy extending...

A collection of the best English short fiction features stories by Fay Weldon, Alice Munro, Brian Aldiss, Angela Carter, Seamus Deane, Mavis Gallant, Edna O'Brien, and Salman Rushdie, as well as unknown writers.