FREE Short Stories for Commuters

Annie

ninth Aug 2024

Studying Time: 2 minutes

For those who’re a London-based commuter, otherwise you’re visiting this summer season on a visit, be sure to cease by Canary Wharf to pay money for some free brief tales to entertain you in your commute.

After its earlier success, worldwide large writer Penguin Books has created “brief story stations” the place you’ll be able to print off one, three, and five-minute lengthy reads. They may be fiction, non-fiction, or poetry, and every month has a special theme. This month, it’s celebrating South Asian Heritage month with contributions from Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie, Girls’s Prize-winner V V Ganeshananthan and Empireworld creator Sathnam Sanghera and extra.

To get your free reads, go to any station in Canary Wharf’s Crossrail Palace Roof Backyard or Jubilee Place. Discover the studying station, press a button, and print out a narrative to your commute!

Present tales embody:

 1. Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera
In his groundbreaking new ebook, Sanghera traces the legacies of the British Empire all over the world.

2. Say You’ll Be My Jaan by Naina Kumar
Meghna has tried every little thing to seek out her jaan: blind dates, the dreaded apps, even making an attempt conversations with strangers. The whole lot besides organized marriage…

3. The Really feel Good Repair by Lavina Mehta
Particularly designed to enhance your well being in perimenopause, menopause and past, this ebook gives fast, enjoyable and efficient bitesize train, in addition to thoughts and life-style ’snacks’ to make you are feeling good, each bodily and mentally.

4. Knife by Salman Rushdie
A gripping account of survival and restoration from internationally famend author and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie.

5. The Girlfriend Act by Safa Ahmed
A delightfully swoony story with endearing characters discovering the braveness to be true to themselves and their desires.

6. Brotherless Evening by V V Ganeshananthan
An exploration of a household fractured by civil conflict. This lovely, nuanced novel follows a younger physician caught inside conflicting ideologies as she tries to avoid wasting lives.

7. Race and Schooling by Kalwant Bhopal
Professor Kalwant Bhopal exhibits how race nonetheless determines who positive aspects one of the best training in Britain, and who falls by the wayside. By case research, unique analysis and interviews with college students, lecturers and teachers alike, she reveals how the development of privilege begins at a younger age.