David Malcolm is Professor of English Literature at the University of Gdañsk. He is co-author (with Cheryl Alexander Malcolm) of Jean Rhys: A Study of the Short Fiction (1996), and author of Understanding Ian McEwan (2002), Understanding Graham Swift (2003) and Understanding John McGahern (2007). He is co-editor (with Cheryl Alexander Malcolm) of British and Irish Short-Fiction Writers, 1945-2000, Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 319 (2006) and A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).

"Overall, The British and Irish Short Story Handbook will
be a useful tool in the teaching of the short story at
undergraduate and postgraduate level. Further, for scholars new to
the field of short story criticism it is an accessible yet
well-informed entry point. With the range of resources it
offers and the succinct summaries it provides of key issues, topics
and debates it collates some of the central tenets of the field. I
am sure it will set people off on a fruitful journey into the
ever-developing field of the British and Irish short story and
short story criticism." (Irish Studies Review, 21
November 2013)

"The British and Irish Short Story Handbook is an
excellent introduction to the short story as a literary form, but
is of greater interest to the student than to a general reader, and
my reservations on the entry on Warner should not detract from the
fact that her inclusion in it draws her closer to mainstream
literary fiction as it is taught in schools and universities. And
for that we should be grateful." (Journal of the Sylvia Townsend
Warner Society, 1 February 2013)

"Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and
general readers." (Choice, 1 November 2012)