When I read this story on the couple who sued their thirty year old son for refusing to move out it made me jump, because it is a story that could have been plucked straight from Lionel Shriver’s fantastic collection of short stories: ‘Property’. Continue reading Lionel Shriver Property Review
For a little light (or should I say… dark?) reading, this collection of short stories is the one you need. Continue reading Valentine’s Day Book
‘The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock’ plot: We are in London. It is 1785. Jonah Hancock has just had his ship sold… for a mermaid. Suddenly, his life changes. He moves in different circles and meets courtesan Angelica Neal. They get married and things become complicated. Continue reading January Books
‘In a way it’s easier to do a short thing, all in one flight that a novel. Novels are frightfully clumsy and overpowering of course; still if one could only get hold of them it would be superb. I daresay one ought to invent a completely new form.’ Virginia Woolf. Continue reading Two Stories: Virginia Woolf and Mark Haddon