[Jan Mbali]

Discovered Panos Karnezis, a very talented short story writer. Greek that has settled in the UK. Read "Little Infamies". He packs a lot into a story, using a deceptively naturalistic style. But his longer stories do it better. Perhaps he ought to write a novel? Or perhaps not. What is unsaid the reader fills with imaginings drawn from scraps of knowledge about Greece and then from the little worlds that he creates. Perhaps a strength comes from the stories being set in one place - our master of the wry short story, Herman Bosman, builds a series like that.