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/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=21149 Doyle, Roddy. Oh, Play that Thing. 2004.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=21165 Rendell, Ruth. A Guilty Thing Surprised. 1970.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=30908 Ayckbourn, Alan. Things That Go Bump. 2008.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34271 Lippman, Laura. Every Secret Thing. 2003.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=34276 Lippman, Laura. Another Thing to Fall. 2008.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=40582 Swift, Graham. The Next Best Thing. 2020.

In May 2020 Graham Swift’s short story “The Next Best Thing” was published in the Telegraph . Set in Germany in 1959, the year part of the action of Swift’s most recent novel Here We Are (2020) also takes place, the 5800-word story focuses on the encounter between two strangers: a German public servant, Herr Büchner, and a soldier of the British Army, Private Caan. The soldier, who is “currently residing with the British Army of the Rhine”, is looking for news of his Jewish relatives who lived in Germany before the second World War. In his early forties Amtsleiter Hans Büchner, who “had been a soldier himself”, works as supervisor of the Records department at the Rathaus , the town hall of an unnamed German town; he is “more than twice” the age of nineteen-year-old Joseph Caan, a “tailor’s apprentice” from “London N8”. Although Caan has indicated to his commanding officer, Major Wilkes, that the search for his

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41467 Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. 1963.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=9252 Spark, Muriel Sarah. The French Window and the Small Telephone. 1993.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=26070 Banti, Anna. The Small House [La casa piccola]. 1961.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39742 Tuwhare, Hone. Small Holes in the Silence: Collected Works. 2011.