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  On Our Selection

  Steele Rudd

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  The Rudd family take up a selection in Queensland scrub and spend twenty years failing at it — drought, bark huts, one plough, a cow that dies, a crop that does not come. Steele Rudd was Arthur Hoey Davis, a selector's son who wrote his own family's losing struggle and made Dad and Dave into Australian household names. It is very funny, and the poverty underneath it is not a joke.

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  The Viy

  Nikolai Gogol

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  "The Viy" is a horror novella by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, first published in the first volume of his collection of tales entitled Mirgorod (1835). The title is also the name of the demonic entity central to the plot.
  Every summer, there is usually a large procession of all the students moving around the area as they travel home. However, the group is reduced to three students: the theologian Khaliava, the philosopher Khoma Brut, and the rhetorician Tibery Gorobets.
  As the night draws in, the students hope to find a village near the main road where they can find some rest and food. However, they become lost in the wilderness, eventually coming upon two small houses and a farm. An older woman there tells them she has a little room and cannot accommodate any more travelers, but she eventually agrees to let them stay.
  At night, the woman comes to Khoma. At first, he thinks she is trying to seduce him, but then she draws closer and he sees that her eyes are glowing strangely. She leaps on his back, and he reluctantly finds himself galloping with her all over the countryside with a strength he previously never knew. He eventually slows the witch by chanting exorcisms out loud, and then rides on her back and later picks up a piece of wood and beats her as punishment. The older woman later collapses, and he discovers she has turned into a beautiful girl.
  Khoma runs away to Kyiv and resumes his easy life, when a rumor reaches his dean that a rich cossack's daughter was found crawling home near death, her last wish being for Khoma the philosopher to come and read psalms over her corpse for three nights after her death.

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  The Telegram

  Konstantín Paustovski, Marlene...

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  Konstantin Paustovsky was a Russian writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965, 1966,1967,1968.
  Paustovsky began writing while still in Gymnasium. His first works were imitative poetry but he restricted his writing to prose after Ivan Bunin wrote in a letter to him: "I think that your sphere, your real poetry, is prose. It is here, if you are determined enough, that I am sure you can achieve something significant."
  Paustovsky's prose, steeped in nostalgia and quiet sorrow, reaches its finest expression in The Telegram—a story of distance, both physical and emotional, and the irreversible weight of unsaid words.
  The Telegram is not merely a story; it is a whisper across time, a plea too late, a love unspoken until the silence swallows it whole. In Paustovsky's world, distance is more than geography—it is the fragile thread between duty and regret, between those who leave and those who wait. The past lingers in unmailed letters, in the hush of an empty house, in the shadow of a mother's gaze.
  His words do not shout—they murmur, they breathe, they break the heart with a tenderness that lingers long after the final sentence.

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  Timeless Terrors Vol 1 - Volume...

  Various Authors

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  Enter a world where fear is eternal. Timeless Terrors: Volume One gathers ten masterworks of Gothic and classic horror, each a dark journey into the uncanny and the macabre. Witness the nightmarish transformation of The Metamorphosis, the creeping dread of The Yellow Wallpaper, the sinister power of The Monkey’s Paw, and the chilling vengeance of The Cask of Amontillado. These stories, haunting readers for over a century, now come alive through the masterful narration of Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne. 
  This omnibus includes: 
  The Metamorphosis, The Outsider, Tell-Tale Sign, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Oval Portrait, The Monkey’s Paw, The Cask of Amontillado, Dracula’s Guest, Dagon, and The Damned Thing. 
  Immerse yourself in tales of terror that defy time—where every shadow hides a secret, every silence whispers a warning, and every page is a journey into the unknown.

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  What Maisie Knew

  Henry James

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  Maisie's parents divorce and share her out six months each, then use her as a courier for the things they wish to say to one another. What she understands — and when — is the whole novel, and James never once steps outside her. He was born American, took British nationality in his last year, and wrote in 1897 the most unsparing book about adults ever put in a child's point of view.

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  My Flirtations A Chapter - From...

  Ella Hepworth Dixon writing as...

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Ella Hepworth Dixon writing as Margaret Wynham.

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