The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story of The Penguin Book of the Contemporary British Short Story by Philip Hensher and Kazuo Ishiguro and Jackie Kay and Graham Swift and Jane Gardam and Ali Smith and Neil Gaiman and Martin Amis and China Miéville and Peter Hobbs and Thomas Morris and David Rose and David Szalay and Irvine Welsh and Lucy Caldwell and Rose Tremain and Helen Oyeyemi and Leone Ross and Helen Simpson and Zadie Smith and Will Self and Gerard Woodward and James Kelman and Lucy Wood and Hilary Mantel and Eley Williams and Sarah Hall and Mark Haddon and Helen Dunmore and Tessa Hadley and A.L. Kennedy