The Pre-War House and Other Stories is the debut collection from Alison Moore, whose first novel, The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and Specsavers National Book Awards 2012. The stories collected here range from her first published short story (which appeared in a small journal in 2000) to new and recently published work. Moore's stories have been shortlisted for more than a dozen different awards, including the Bridport Prize, the Fish Prize, the Lightship Flash Fiction Prize, the Manchester Fiction Prize and the Nottingham Short Story Competition.