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The shortlist of this year's BBC National Short Story Award, the winner of which will be announced later today, will be available to download as audiobooks from AudioGo.
The titles can be downloaded from iTunes or from AudioGo's website from 6th December. The five shortlisted stories are Tea at the Midland by David Constantine, Haywards Heath by Aminatta Forna, Butcher's Perfume by Sarah Hall, If it Keeps on Raining by Jon McGregor and My Daughter the Racist by Helen Oyeyemi.
Jim Naughtie, chair of this year's panel, said: "The short story can expose a writer, cruelly, like a miniaturist on canvas who has to work to distil a world into a few square inches, the writer who can suggest a great span in a story that has to be kept in check is a true servant of the craft. A short story needs to waste no time. As judges we found in our discussion that although our tastes and stylistic passions are probably quite different, we knew a good one when we saw one."
The awards are administered in partnership with BookTrust. AudioGo was formerly known as BBC Audiobooks.