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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Honoré de Balzac, Walter Scott,...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume our classic authors turn their words and narratives to a decade when Europe is engulfed in revolution. At home London becomes the largest city on the globe, as the Industrial Revolution gathers pace amidst stirrings of increasing social unrest. 
   
  01 - Top 10 Short Stories - The 1820s - An Introduction 
  2 - El Verdugo by Honoré de Balzac 
  3 - The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott 
  4 - Ferdinando Eboli by Mary Shelley 
  5 - The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving 
  6 - Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman 
  7 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 1 by Ernst Raupach 
  8 - Wake Not the Dead - Part 2 by Ernst Raupach 
  9 - From the Memoirs of Satan by Wilhelm Hauff 
  10 - Peter Rugg, The Missing Man - Part 1 by William Austin 
  11 - Peter Rugg, The Missing Man - Part 2 by William Austin 
  12 - Mateo Falcone by Prosper Merimee 
  13 - The Prediction - Part 1 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey 
  14 - The Prediction - Part 2 by Mary Diana Dods writing as David Lyndsey

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  The Critic's Daughter - A Memoir

  Priscilla Gilman

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  An exquisitely rendered portrait of a unique father-daughter relationship and a moving memoir of family and identity. 
   
   
   
  Growing up on the Upper West Side of New York City in the 1970s, in an apartment filled with dazzling literary and artistic characters, Priscilla Gilman worshiped her brilliant, adoring, and mercurial father, the writer, theater critic, and Yale School of Drama professor Richard Gilman. But when Priscilla was ten years old, her mother, renowned literary agent Lynn Nesbit, abruptly announced that she was ending the marriage. The resulting cascade of disturbing revelations—about her parents' hollow marriage, her father's double life and tortured sexual identity—fundamentally changed Priscilla's perception of her father, as she attempted to protect him from the depression that had long shadowed him. 
   
   
   
  A wrenching story about what it means to be the daughter of a demanding parent, a revelatory window into the impact of divorce, and a searching reflection on the nature of art and criticism, The Critic's Daughter is an unflinching account of loss and grief—and a radiant testament of forgiveness and love.

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  The Forged Coupon - A Tale of...

  Leo Tolstoy, Tim Zengerink

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  What if the smallest crime demanded the greatest reckoning? 
  Leo Tolstoy’s The Forged Coupon traces the life of a single counterfeit note as it crosses hands and wreaks havoc—until a final act of mercy halts its dark momentum.  
  In vivid scenes that span gambling dens, prison cells, and humble cottages, Tolstoy shows how evil compounds—and how compassion can reverse the tide. 
  What You’ll Hear in This Adaptation: 
  ●	An Unbroken Chain of Consequence – Follow the forged note from innocent prank to tragic violence. 
  ●	A Gallery of Human Portraits – Meet debt-ridden students, cunning traders, desperate laborers, and a humble monk. 
  ●	A Journey from Darkness to Light – Experience the turning point where forgiveness outshines revenge. 
  ●	A Listener-Friendly Modern Translation – Tolstoy’s final moral parable delivered with clarity and suspense. 
  Perfect for your next road trip into the heart of conscience.

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  Amy Levy - Six of the Best -...

  Amy Levy

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master.

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  Polly - The True Story Behind...

  Roger Hutchinson

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  Early on a wartime winter's morning in 1941, the 8,000-ton cargo ship SS Politician ran aground in the beautiful but treacherous seas of Scotland's Outer Hebrides. Among its cargo were 260,000 bottles of whisky destined for the American market – a godsend to the local Eriskay islanders whose home-grown supply had dried up due to wartime rationing.
  News quickly spread and boats came from as far as Lewis, and before local excise officer Charles McColl could intervene, more than 24,000 bottles had been 'rescued'. Villages were raided as bottles of whisky were hidden in the most ingenious ways – or simply drunk to get rid of the evidence. Meanwhile, official salvage operations foundered, and in order to pre-vent what the islanders themselves regarded as legitimate salvage, the hull of the Politician was dynamited.
  The story is well known through Compton Mackenzie's bestselling book Whisky Galore and the famous 1949 Ealing comedy of the same name. In this book, acclaimed journalist and Hebridean expert Roger Hutchinson tells the true story of one of the most bizarre events ever to have happened in Scottish waters.

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  Beneath the Surface of Things -...

  Wade Davis

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  A timely and eclectic collection from one of the foremost thinkers of our time, "a powerful, penetrating and immensely knowledgeable writer" (The Guardian). 
   
   
   
  The essays in this collection came about during the unhurried months when one who had traveled incessantly was obliged to stay still, even as events flared on all sides in a world that never stops moving. Wade Davis brings his unique cultural perspective to such varied topics as the demonization of coca, the sacred plant of the Inca; the Great War and the birth of modernity; the British conquest of Everest; the endless conflict in the Middle East; reaching beyond climate fear and trepidation; on the meaning of the sacred. His essay, "The Unraveling of America," first published in Rolling Stone, attracted five million readers and generated 362 million social media impressions. Media interest in the story was sustained over many weeks, with interview requests coming in from twenty-three countries. 
   
   
   
  The anthropological lens, as Davis demonstrates, reveals what lies beneath the surface of things, allowing us to see, and to seek, the wisdom of the middle way, a perspective of promise and hope that all of the essays in this collection aspire to convey.

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