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  Katherine Mansfield - Six of the...

  Katherine Mansfield

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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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  My Ride with Nautilus MC Danmark

  Max Ølsted

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  This isn’t a story about outlaws. Not the kind you’ve seen on screen, anyway. There are no shootouts, no staged rebellions, no romanticized lawlessness. If you’re looking for that, you won’t find it here. What you will find is a ledger. A record of early mornings, cold engines, quiet tests, and the slow, unglamorous work of earning a place in a room that doesn’t need you until you prove it does. 
  Nautilus MC Danmark was founded in 1981. Not as a statement. Not as a spectacle. As a response. Men who built things with their hands were watching those things disappear. Roads were getting faster. Rules were getting tighter. And a lot of us were left with empty weekends, quiet houses, and the realization that no one was going to hand us back our purpose. So we built our own. Not outside the law. Outside the committee. The 1% patch never meant chaos. It meant autonomy. It meant refusing to ride by someone else’s schedule, answer to someone else’s consensus, or pretend that convenience is loyalty. That’s all it ever meant. And it’s all it still means. 
  I walked into their space in 2010. Fifty-five years old. Newly divorced. Calendar full of weekends I didn’t know how to fill. I thought I was looking for riding partners. For cold beer. For men who’d laugh at my bad jokes and let me pretend I still belonged to something loud and alive. I was wrong about almost all of it. But I was wrong in the right way. 
  This book is about that process. Not the myth. The work. It’s about the difference between wanting to belong and being willing to pay for it. It’s about learning that brotherhood isn’t a social club. It’s a contract. Signed in sweat. Sealed with discipline. Paid in missed dinners, stiff joints, quiet sacrifices, and the hard understanding that the patch on your back isn’t armor. It’s accountability.

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  Forgotten Authors The - Volume 6...

  Fergus Hume, Violet Jacob,...

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  Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. 
  In literature the ambition is much narrower.  In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published.  And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading.  Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number. 
  In the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution.  Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it.  Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.  
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.   
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  Sadly, in the thirst for the new, the recent and the past fell from sight, relegated to dark corners and dusty shelves.    
  But the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age. 
  In this volume we offer up a small selection of those talents whose time has now come again.

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  Angèle au Couvent - A young...

  Mary Butts

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  Mary Frances Butts was born on 13th December 1890 in Poole, Dorset. 
   
  Her early years were spent at Salterns, an 18th-century house overlooking Poole Harbour.  Sadly in 1905 her father died, and she was sent for boarding at St Leonard's school for girls in St Andrews. 
   
  Her mother remarried and, from 1909, Mary studied at Westfield College in London, and here, first became aware of her bisexual feelings.  She was sent down for organising a trip to Epsom races and only completed her degree in 1914 when she graduated from the London School of Economics.  By then Mary had become an admirer of the occultist Aleister Crowley and she was given a co-authorship credit on his ‘Magick (Book 4)’. 
   
  In 1916, she began the diary which would now detail her future life and be a constant reference point for her observations and her absorbing experiences. 
   
  During World War I, she was doing social work for the London County Council in Hackney Wick, and involved in a lesbian relationship.  Life changed after meeting the modernist poet, John Rodker and they married in 1918. 
   
  In 1921 she spent 3 months at Aleister Crowley's Abbey of Thelema in Sicily; she found the practices dreadful and also acquired a drug habit.  Mary now spent time writing in Dorset, including her celebrated book of short stories ‘Speed the Plough’ which saw fully develop her unique Modernist prose style. 
   
  Europe now beckoned and several years were spent in Paris befriending many artists and writing further extraordinary stories.   
   
  She was continually sought after by literary magazines and also published several short story collections as books. Although a Modernist writer she worked in other genres but is essentially only known for her short stories.  Mary was deeply committed to nature conservation and wrote several pamphlets attacking the growing pollution of the countryside. 
   
  In 1927, she divorced and the following year her novel ‘Armed with Madness’ was published.  A further marriage followed in 1930 and time was spent attempting to settle in London and Newcastle before setting up home on the western tip of Cornwall.  By 1934 the marriage had failed. 
   
  Mary Butts died on 5th March 1937, at the West Cornwall Hospital, Penzance, after an operation for a perforated gastric ulcer. She was 46. 
   
  In ‘Angèle Au Couvent’ Butts takes up the story of a young school girl desperate for friendships but wrestling with her fluid interpretation of religion.

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  The Oblong Box

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  More classic horror narrations on Jonathan Dunne Horror Stories & Audiobooks: https://www.youtube.com/@JonathanDunneHorrorAudiobooks 
  Title: The Oblong Box 
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1844 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Timeless Terrors No. 69 
  Description: 
  The Oblong Box is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most unsettling maritime tales — a masterclass in suspense, atmosphere, and the horror of human obsession. Set aboard a 19th-century ship, the story follows a passenger who becomes increasingly disturbed by his friend’s secretive behavior surrounding a coffin-sized oblong box. Strange incidents, obsessive guarding of the box, and the tense atmosphere aboard the storm-tossed vessel build a sense of dread. 
  When the box’s contents are finally revealed, the tragic truth shocks both the narrator and the reader, exposing grief and devotion taken to their darkest extremes. Poe’s skillful storytelling creates terror through suggestion, psychological tension, and the inexorable presence of death. 
  Narrated by Amazon-bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, this performance captures the melancholy, suspense, and gothic intensity that define Poe’s work. While the text itself is in the public domain, this narration and production are copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  Part of Timeless Terrors, a series dedicated to resurrecting the greatest classic horror stories, The Oblong Box is a haunting reminder that some secrets are best left undisturbed. 🕯️

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  Some Ways of Love - From their...

  Charlotte Mew

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  Charlotte Mary Mew was born on 15th November, 1869 in London to professional parents – her father was responsible for the design of Hampstead Town Hall. 
  Charlotte, one of seven children; three of whom died in early childhood, was educated at Lucy Harrison's School for Girls and attended lectures at University College, London. 
  In 1898 her father died but failed to make provision for the family. Her mother, anxious about the family's social standing, did not want that known even though there was heavy ongoing expense for two other siblings who were in mental institutions. 
  However for Charlotte helping to support this overhead and her mother and sister, Anne, meant that her ambition to be a paid writer must now become a reality. Initially this meant prose - her poetry was to gestate until later in life. 
  During this time Charlotte and Anne made a pact never to marry for fear of passing on insanity to their children. 
  As a writer Charlotte was a modernist, resisting the shackles of Victorian society's suffocating demands on behaviour especially for women. Despite her diminutive figure and dainty feet, she wore trousers, kept her hair short, smoked roll ups, was a Lesbian and tried to appear masculine. 
  Her difficult family life, although her close relationship with Anne was a constant source of comfort and companionship until her death in 1927, was coupled with rejection in her personal life but also provided inspiration for her wonderfully insightful and original poetry that you can read here. 
  Despite her fans including Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf and Siegfried Sassoon, Charlotte's works have been shamefully neglected.  
  Charlotte Mew died on 24th March in 1928 and was buried at Hampstead Cemetery.

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