Mammals, I Think We Are Called

Book cover, Mammals, I Think We Are Called, a toy hare looks up into the camera.

Giselle Leeb’s debut short story collection, ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’, is published by Salt (Oct 22) in their Salt Modern Stories series.

Ambitious and playful, darkly humorous and imaginative, these strikingly original stories move effortlessly between the realistic and the fantastical, as their outsider characters explore what it’s like to be human in the twenty-first century. Whether about our relationship with the environment and animals, technology, social media, loneliness, or the enormity of time, they reflect the complexities of being alive. Beautifully written and compelling, you won’t read anything else like them.

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Giselle Leeb

Giselle Leeb

Giselle Leeb’s debut short story collection, ‘Mammals, I Think We Are Called’, is published by Salt (Oct 22). Her short stories have been widely published in journals, magazines, and anthologies, including Best British Short Stories 2017 (Salt), Ambit, Mslexia, The Lonely Crowd, Litro, Black Static, and Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. She has been placed and shortlisted in competitions including the Ambit, Bridport and Mslexia prizes, and won the Seventy2One Short Story Competition for climate fiction, judged by Lucie McKnight Hardy. Shie is a Word Factory Apprentice Award winner 2019 and was chosen to attend the David Higham Associates New Writers’ Open Week in 2021. She is an assistant editor at Reckoning Journal. She grew up in South Africa and lives in Nottingham.