Six Shorts 2014: The finalists for The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award

The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award is the world's richest and most prestigious prize for a short story, with £30,000 going to the winner.

This special ebook contains, exclusively and in full, all six shortlisted stories competing for the 2014 award, written by an intriguing selection of both celebrated and newly discovered voices. Alongside American Pulitzer prize-winners Adam Johnson and Elizabeth Strout are stories by Granta Best of Young British novelist Tahmima Anam, Canadian-American novelist Marjorie Celona, Jonathan Tel and Anna Metcalfe.

Ranging from Dubai and Palo Alto to Shanghai and Beijing, and from traditional storytelling to the invigoratingly experimental, these wonderfully varied stories show just how vital and gripping short-form fiction can be.