The five-strong shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award, announced on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row on 16 September, includes a story by double-Booker winner Hilary Mantel
The shortlist is: Garments, Tahmima Anam; Morning, Noon & Night, Claire-Louise Bennett; The Darkest Place in England, Lavinia Greenlaw; In a Right State, Hilary Mantel; Disappearances, KJ Orr.