All the Beloved Ghosts, Paperback/Alison MacLeod

The author of the Man Booker-longlisted }Unexploded{ blends fiction, memoir, past and present in this collection of short stories. Themes of memory, morality and the media are interrogated with delicate insight, capturing the little victories and human struggles of reluctant jihadists, Bloomsbury Group children and residents of 1920s Nova Scotia with consistent acuteness.