The Body in the Mobile Library and Other Stories

The Body in the Mobile Library and Other Stories is a 2024 collection of short stories by author and critic Peter Bradshaw.

Writing
The Body in the Mobile Library and Other Stories is a collection of twenty-one darkly humorous and macabre stories, often with a poignant, or absurdist, or nightmarish theme. Many of the stories were previously broadcast on BBC Radio 4 or published in Esquire.

Reception
Tommy Gilhooly in the Literary Review said the collection is "mischievous, often raunchy and always teetering on perversity".

Emma Beddington in The Spectator called one story "compellingly gruesome" and wrote: "Bradshaw relishes the grotesque and improbable; his set-ups are outrageously inventive" but that "characters are sympathetically drawn and their longings, insecurities, vanities and weaknesses feel all too credible."