All the Bananas I’ve Never Eaten

Tony Williams’s All the Bananas I’ve Never Eaten won the Saboteur Award for best short story collection. His poetry includes The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street and The Midlands. He lived in Sheffield for more than a decade before moving to rural Northumberland. He works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

• ClicksMovementsLengthsC’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerreWe’re KappaAnya’s complaintSuki’s letterThe people seem so small and far awayAs God intendedWhy the Renaissance began in ItalySitting on the bank of a mighty riverThe wonderful thingBack in a jiffyNames of cakesCall of dutyCichlidsThe flightOl’ blue eyesMustelidsA glimpse of the glampersPartnersThe prisoner of MansfieldThe best of fathersLaptopsMarkingitisThe blindsBollockin bollocksYou can close your heart but I can still hurt youDinghyheadWhat is and what should never beOrangina or AppletiseNext door to murderMatthewA long, long timeAmuse-boucheThe harbour wallThe variation GarethThe colonel’s executionMeeting in the mittelDr ScopoliChestnutsKeith and IThe region of dangerous roadsBanjo playersTraining a championSmoking for ruddLearning to love Mr LambA new lookBetter than cod JudyA White Peak prophecyThe whalesNo longer covered in the training manualComing homeValid only with reservationsBeing likeGoing livePoints of contactFive hundred poundThrough the birchesChintz almost beginsHuskisson and the seaOne tape dadWhere it was coming fromPiece for oboeSatnavs and the ShoaThe bowling greenTender is the nightThe division roomWhen Rachel left All the bananas I’ve never eatenAcknowledgments

Tony Williams has successfully used the medium of literature to weave in and out of the life of the average person, re-creating those lives for our reading pleasure. The emotion, humour and awkwardness in these tales is the closest thing to real-life I have read in an extremely long time and I would certainly recommend this book to anyone looking for a good book that will keep you on your toes.