The Green Hat perfectly reflects the atmosphere of the 1920s – the post-war fashion for verbal smartness, youthful cynicism and the spirit of rebellion of the ‘bright young things’ of Mayfair.

An Error of Judgement is a strange and disturbing story of marriage and moral dilemma.Olivia Laing's review of An Error of Judgement in The Guardian, 1st March 2008

 This new selection reflects de Maupassant’s remarkable diversity, with stories that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce.
A BBC radio programme celebrating the life and work of Guy de Maupassant

Plain Tales From The Hills was Kipling’s first published volume of fiction. With its concentration of effect, the collection is a landmark in the history of the short story.
Jon Buchan’s essay considering race in the short story.
Image of Kipling’s writing room

The Dark Flower covers almost 30 years in the life and loves of Mark Lennan, opening in 1880 with Mark an 18-year-old undergraduate studying art at Oxford.

Picture a London in the future where democracy is dead.

Dracula is a classic of British fiction. Count Dracula is the epitome of evil, exotic and real enough to be the subject of several modern day films.

An interview with Bram Stoker about Dracula, conducted by Jane Stoddard, in the British Weekly, 1 July 1897.

The Man Who Knew Everything is not a tragedy: though it contains pain and tragedy, this finely wrought and moving novel tells of a life redeemed by the commitment of its protagonist to his métier.

 Considered by many to be one of the greatest crime novels ever written, The Hound of the Baskervilles is an absolute classic of the genre.

Donn Byrne was a story-teller, the last, as he himself explained, of a long line of Irish story-tellers. He belonged to the school of the romantic, the rhetorical, the magical – in short to the stylists of story-telling.
Israeli composer Max Stern adapted the novel into an opera

An article on the roots of Eileen Goudge’s writing. by Tony Jaros Vegetarian Times, August, 1995

G.K. Chesterton’s little priest investigates his own murder in the first of eight unusual cases.