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The Body in the Mobile Library and Other Stories is a 2024 collection of short stories by author and critic Peter Bradshaw.

Writing

The Body in the Mobile Library and Other Stories is a collection of twenty-one darkly humorous and macabre stories, often with a poignant, or absurdist, or nightmarish theme. Many of the stories were previously broadcast on BBC Radio 4 or published in Esquire.

Reception

Tommy Gilhooly in the Literary Review said the collection is "mischievous, often raunchy and always teetering on perversity".

Emma Beddington in The Spectator called one story "compellingly gruesome" and wrote: "Bradshaw relishes the grotesque and improbable; his set-ups are outrageously inventive" but that "characters are sympathetically drawn and their longings, insecurities, vanities and weaknesses feel all too credible."

References

1. Fraser, Katie (9 October 2023). "Lightning strikes for Bradshaw's short story collection". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2024-05-05.
2. Gilhooly, Tommy (1 May 2024). "Your Passcode Or Your Life". Literary Review. Literary Review . p. 58. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
3. Beddington, Emma (20 April 2024). "Grotesque vignettes". The Spectator. Press Holdings. p. 32. Retrieved 20 April 2024.

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