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  Thrilled to Death - Selected...

  Lynne Tillman, Luc Sante,...

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  From award-winning novelist and cultural critic Lynne Tillman, Thrilled to Death is a collection of selected stories across the career of America's most audacious writer 
   
   
   
  Among the vanguard of American literary writers, Lynne Tillman's work has defied categorization throughout her legendary career—a singular body of work that both redefined and reimagined the short story form entirely. 
   
   
   
  Curated by the author, Thrilled to Death is the definitive entry point for both established fans and new readers alike. These selected stories collect a bold, playful, and eclectic ensemble of Tillman's Borgesian fictions that span decades and traverse themes of sex, death, memory, and anxiety. 
   
   
   
  With argumentative wit, Tillman's meditations and reflections on art, politics, and culture are animated by deliciously paradoxical characters who desire and fret in turn, and who are imbued with searing intelligence and dolorous ambivalence. Describing Tillman's writing, Colm Tóibín says: "Her style has both tone and undertone; it attempts to register the impossibility of saying very much, but it insists on the right to say a little. So what is essential is the voice itself, its ways of knowing and unknowing."

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  Letting Go - A Timeline of Tales

  Gerda Stevenson

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  The twelve stories in Letting Go take us on a journey through landscape, language and turbulent times, from the mid-19th century to the present day, and into the future. Stevenson's array of characters from many walks of life and nationalities – including a traveller, a wood carver, chicken farm workers, a nurse, an architect and a magician – meet and part, some becoming reacquainted.
  Themes exploring identity, creativity and the environment, echo and connect throughout the different narratives, sometimes carried in snatches of song. The author leads us outward from her native Scottish Borders to Edinburgh, Glasgow and the Gàidhealtachd, south to England, across the Atlantic to Apartheid South Africa and, finally, to the melting Arctic.

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  Nothing Without Honour

  Martin Hicks

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  It is the Spring of 1864 and the Confederate raider Palmetto is off the Philippines, pursuing her campaign against US shipping. For her captain, Thomas Grover there is much to consider, for with the ship’s previously sustained engine damage not fully repaired, he learns that these seas are now patrolled by a new Union warship that vastly overmatches his own ship. As the war turns increasingly against the south, Grover must redouble his efforts against the enemy, but the hidden threats facing him are as dangerous as the known ones.

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  Stories Featuring Funerals -...

  Ambrose Bierce, Mary Butts,...

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  The funeral is the one appointment we’d rather never make.  Whether as the deceased, or as a friend and loved one attending, a burial is the grim reminder that a life has passed and the future must now be made without them.   Our talented authors explore this period of time in their own individual and inimitable ways as only they can.  
   
  01 - Stories Featuring Funerals - An Introduction 
  02 - John Mortonson's Funeral by Ambrose Bierce 
  14 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts 
  04 - The Sculptor's Funeral by Willa Cather 
  05 - Silence by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreyev 
  06 - Bobok by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
  07 - The Way To The Churchyard by Thomas Mann 
  08 - Jose Matias by Eca de Queiros 
  09 - The Country Doctor by Mary E Mann 
  10 - Siegmund Simon by Alfred Lichtenstein 
  11 - When I Was Dead by Vincent O'Sullivan 
  12 - The Wedding Eve by Morley Roberts 
  13 - A Trip To The Other World by Kalman Mikszath

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  The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1845. It centers around a man named Valdemar who is hypnotized shortly before his death. After his apparent demise, his body remains in a state of catalepsy for several days. While still in this state, the narrator attempts to communicate with Valdemar through hypnosis, but the results are startling and disturbing.

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  The Hidden Light of Objects

  Mai Al-Nakib

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  A young girl, renamed Amerika in honour of the US role in the liberation of Kuwait, finds her name has become a barometer of her country's growing hostility towards the West. A self-conscious Palestinian teenager is drawn into a botched suicide bombing by two belligerent classmates. A middle-aged man dying from cancer looks back on his extramarital affairs and the abiding forgiveness of his wife. A Kuwaiti woman returns to her family after being held captive in Iraq for a decade.
  
  The headlines tell of war, unrest and religious clashes. But if you look beyond them you will see life in the Middle East as it is really lived – adolescent love, the fragility of marriage, pain of the most quotidian kind. Mai Al-Nakib's luminous stories unveil the lives of ordinary people – and the power of objects to hold extraordinary memories.

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