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  Late at Night

  Katherine Mansfield

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  Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. 
  "Late at Night" is a wistful and bitter monologue by a young woman who has received a disturbing letter from a young man she fancies.

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  Alexandre Dumas - A Short Story

  Alexandre Dumas

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  The Short Stories Of Alexandre Dumas. The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel.  But it is an art in itself.  To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task.  Many try and many fail.  In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers.  Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say.  In this volume we examine some of the short stories of Alexandre Dumas.  Alexandre Dumas born into poverty in 1802.   Complicating his life was his African ancestry which gave rise to much racist behaviour against him despite being seven eighths French.  Raised by his mother after his Father’s death by age 4 he was a voracious reader.  At age 20, with the restoration of the French Monarchy he went to Paris to attend on The Duke of Orleans.  Thereafter he began to write plays and two early successes allowed him to write full time.  Dumas helped in the revolution of 1830 which installed his former employer as the new King. In his late 30s came the books he is so well known for “The Three Musketeers” and “The Count Of Monte Cristo” and with these and others his fame was set both in France and across the World.  Dumas was a great wanderer spending years in Belgium, Russia and Italy.  A prolific writer on politics and travel we look here at his short works including the classic; Martin Guerre.  It is a work of great power holding the attention and asking questions about what is real and what if…..  Some of these stories are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Word Of Mouth.

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  The Battersea Flat Mystery

  Edgar Jepson

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  'The Battersea Flat Mystery' is the true story of a particularly unusual unsolved murder in the Battersea area of London. A man is found shot on the stairs outside the empty flat below the one where his ex-mistress lives and where his son is visiting for supper. A mysterious stranger is seen running from the scene.  
  The murdered man has a history of domestic violence and extreme jealousy verging on paranoia about imagined liaisons which he attributed to his mistress. But who killed him? And why?

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  Father Brown

  G.K. Chesterton

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  FATHER BROWN. This wonderful creation by GK Chesterton is a familiar favourite to many as a TV series in the 70s with Kenneth More.   Chesterton’s other works include ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much.  These four stories test Father Brown in many ways creating headaches a plenty.  However Father Brown is nothing if not redoubtable and whilst Chesterton’s stories are, in his own words, “very slight and improbable” his method is all his own.   Bill Wallis captures perfectly the mood and tone of Father Brown in this collection.

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  Let's All Kill Constance

  Ray Bradbury

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  On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. 
  An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge—and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead, with Constance's name included among them. 
  And so begins an odyssey as dark as it is wondrous, as the writer sets off in a broken-down jalopy with his irascible sidekick Crumley to sift through the ashes of a bygone Hollywood—a graveyard of ghosts and secrets where each twisted road leads to grim shrines and shattered dreams ... and, all too often, to death.

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  A Madman's Diary

  Lu Xun

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  “A Madman’s Diary” is a short story by Lu Xun first published in 1918. Written in vernacular Chinese, it is considered “China’s first modern short story” and the most influential modern work in the republican era. Lu was inspired by “Diary of a Madman" by Nicolai Gogol, both in the use of the diary form and in the idea that the madman sees things more clearly than others. The story comes about when the narrator decides to visit two friends with whom he has lost touch when he learns that one of them has fallen ill. When he arrives, he is met by the brother, who informs him that his brother is no longer ill and hands him a copy of his brother’s diary. It is immediately apparent that the diarist is indeed mad. He believes he is surrounded by cannibals and that everyone has cannibalistic designs on him. His paranoia grows and he begins to see threats everywhere. He even sees  the words “Eat People” between the lines of classic Confucian texts. He eventually suspects that his late sister had been eaten by his brother, and that he himself may have unknowingly done so. He ardently hopes that everyone will have a change of heart and change their ways. The story ends with a plea to “save the children”.The story is not readily comprehensible, and it took several years for it to be recognized as important. Gradually the madman is seen as a revolutionary contemptuous of Chinese tradition and its feudal society that “eats people”, people who themselves are corrupted by traditions they cannot escape.

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