Philip Hensher

Labyrinthine tales: We All Hear Stories in the Dark, by Robert Shearman, reviewed

When you move from one story to another in this ingenious collection it can be hard to find it again except in your memory

: Illustration by Reggie Oliver from We All Hear Stories in the Dark. Credit: Reggie Oliver 
issue 19 December 2020

When the estimable Andy Miller, the host of the Backlisted podcast, recommended a new collection of short stories on Twitter, he said just enough about it to pique my interest. Online booksellers didn’t seem to have heard of it and I had to buy it directly from the publisher. I’m very glad I did.

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