Book review: There Was Once a Place edited by Rob Redman

This is the seventh anthology from The Fiction Desk. Whilst I may be considered biased as they’ve featured a story of mine in two of these collections (including my flash fiction ‘Badass’ in this one) I can say quite honestly that every one of these anthologies has been a pleasure to read. This one is no exception. The Fiction Desk is refreshing. It’s reliably good quality, literary fiction that is however never pretentious or predictable. There’s the expected quota of adultery and difficult...