An exciting new range of books from Picador

“Picador is about to do for books what Top Shop did for high-street fashion’, In Style

Described by The Observer newspaper as ‘a shot in the arm for a dying form’, Picador Shots is a brand new initiative intended to revitalise the short story.

Picador is intensely proud of its critically-acclaimed story collections from outstanding authors such as Tim Winton and Matthew Kneale. 

But somehow many of us have lost - or never really acquired - the habit of reading short stories. Even though our time is arguably more limited than ever before, in the bookshop we usually plump for a novel and it is becoming increasingly difficult for retailers to accommodate short story collections when shop shelf space is at a premium.

Picador publisher Andrew Kidd, however, was keen to raise the profile of the short story and remind readers that a short story can be just as pleasurable, rewarding and substantial as a novel and that they can and should be read in addition to novels, rather than instead of them. 

Following a conversation with the booksellers Waterstone’s, the idea for Picador Shots was born. 

Small but perfectly formed, desirable but disposable, each handily pocket sized Shot contains a single quaffable story by some of Picador’s finest writers, including Bret Easton Ellis, Colm Toíbín, Niall Williams, Jackie Kay, Nell Freudenberger and Claire Messud. 

Attractively designed with collectable individually coloured jackets and beautiful illustrations; at £1 a pop they cost less than your weekly magazine and are only slightly more than a daily paper. 

Don’t be small minded, give one a go today.

Please click here to read an article about the Shots series.