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  Lessons from Literature - Short...

  Katherine Mansfield, Kate...

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  Bringing new souls into the world is both a great responsibility but can ensure receiving a never-ending gift of love and laughter. But for some people raising and nurturing their young is not where’re they’re at.  For these parents the responsibility and needed sacrifices are beyond what they can give, what they can manage.  Going forward life for both parent and child is going to be difficult, perhaps too difficult.   
  In this volume our classic authors begin to unravel the complexities of this most pivotal of relationships.   
   
  1 - Short Stories About the Effects of Bad Parents - An Introduction 
  2 - The Doll's House by Katherine Mansfield 
  3 - A Pair of Silk Stockings by Kate Chopin 
  4 - Why Herbert Killed His Mother by Winifred Holtby 
  5 - An Angel in Disguise by T S Arthur 
  6 - Ben Pitcher's Elly by Mary E Mann

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  Quantum Love: Parallel Hearts

  Ella Stories

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  A quantum physicist invents a device that lets him converse with alternate versions of himself in parallel universes. In a quest to find the best version of his life, he stumbles upon a reality in which he is deeply in love with his best friend, a friendship he always took for granted in his own world. Now, he must confront his newfound feelings and navigate the complexities of love and friendship, all while coming to terms with the life he truly wants.

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  Fidelity - Five Stories

  Wendell Berry

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  "Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective in everything they do. . . . His sentences are exquisitely constructed, suggesting the cyclic rhythms of his agrarian world." —New York Times Book Review 
   
   
   
  A celebration of beloved American author Wendell Berry, the five stories in Fidelity return listeners to Berry's fictional town of Port William, Kentucky, and the familiar characters who form a tight-knit community within.

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  Reverse Engineering II

  Tom Drury, Yiyun Li, Ben Okri,...

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  The sequel to the critically acclaimed Reverse Engineering. Reverse Engineering II brings together contemporary classic stories with their authors' discussions of how they were written. An essential book for everyone interested in how fiction works...

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  The Apparition of Mrs Veal -...

  Daniel Defoe

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  Daniel Defoe is most well-known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born around 1660, he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy. His life was long and colourful, and the breadth of his work, still highly regarded, is infused with similar vigour. 
  It is said that only the bible has been printed in more languages than Robinson Crusoe. Defoe is also noted for being one of the earliest proponents of the novel. He was extremely prolific and a very versatile writer, producing several hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology and the supernatural. He was also a pioneer of economic journalism though was made bankrupt on more on one occasion and usually mired in debt. 
  In later life Defoe was often most seen on Sundays when bailiffs and the like could legally make no move on him.  Allegedly it was whilst hiding from creditors that he died on April 24th, 1731. He was interred in Bunhill Fields, London.

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  Evil Flowers

  Gunnhild Øyehaug, Kari Dickson -...

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  From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Present Tense Machine and Knots, a collection of playfully surreal stories about love, death, and metamorphosis. 
   
  In Evil Flowers, a precise but madcap collection of short stories, Gunnhild Øyehaug extracts the bizarre from the mundane and reveals the strange, startling brilliance of everyday life. 
   
  Across twenty-five stories, Øyehaug renovates the form again and again, confirming Lydia Davis’s observation that her every story is “a formal surprise, smart and droll.” The stories converse with, contradict, and expand on one another; birds, hagfish, and wild beasts reappear, gnawing at the fringes. A section of a woman’s brain slips into the toilet bowl, removing her ability to remember or recognize types of birds (particularly problematic because she is an ornithologist). Medicinal leeches ingest information from fiberoptic cables, and a new museum sinks into the ground. 
   
  Inspired by Charles Baudelaire, a dreamer and romantic in the era of realism, Øyehaug revolts against the ordinary, reaching instead for the wonder to be found in fantasy and absurdity. Brimming with wit, ingenuity, and irrepressible joy, these stories mark another triumph from a dazzling international writer.

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