Short Story Magic Tricks

June 2021

The June stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.

1. ‘A Dedicated Man’ by Elizabeth Taylor
2. ‘A Success Story’ by Margaret Drabble
3. ‘Butcher’s Perfume’ by Sarah Hall
4. ‘The Boots At The Holly-Tree Inn’ by Charles Dickens
5. ‘An Abduction’ by Tessa Hadley
6. ‘Crossing The Alps’ by Margaret Drabble
7. ‘The Lumber-Room’ by Saki
8. ‘Lappin And Lapinova’ by Virginia Woolf
9. ‘Summer 1976’ by Chris Power
10. ‘Mortmain’ by Graham Greene
11. ‘The Spring Hat’ by H.E. Bates
12. ‘A Day In The Life Of A Smiling Woman’ by Margaret Drabble
13. ‘The Gifts Of War’ by Margaret Drabble
14. ‘If It Keeps On Raining’ by Jon McGregor
15. ‘She Said He Said’ by Hanif Kureishi
16. ‘The Pier Falls’ by Mark Haddon
17. ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ by Margaret Drabble
18. ‘G-String’ by Nicola Barker
19. ‘Louise’ by Somerset Maugham
20. ‘Let Me Count The Times’ by Martin Amis
21. ‘Wolf-Alice’ by Angela Carter
22. ‘Nadine At Forty’ by Hilary Mantel

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