June 2021
The June stories ordered solely on my personal tastes.
- ‘A Dedicated Man’ by Elizabeth Taylor
- ‘A Success Story’ by Margaret Drabble
- ‘Butcher’s Perfume’ by Sarah Hall
- ‘The Boots At The Holly-Tree Inn’ by Charles Dickens
- ‘An Abduction’ by Tessa Hadley
- ‘Crossing The Alps’ by Margaret Drabble
- ‘The Lumber-Room’ by Saki
- ‘Lappin And Lapinova’ by Virginia Woolf
- ‘Summer 1976’ by Chris Power
- ‘Mortmain’ by Graham Greene
- ‘The Spring Hat’ by H.E. Bates
- ‘A Day In The Life Of A Smiling Woman’ by Margaret Drabble
- ‘The Gifts Of War’ by Margaret Drabble
- ‘If It Keeps On Raining’ by Jon McGregor
- ‘She Said He Said’ by Hanif Kureishi
- ‘The Pier Falls’ by Mark Haddon
- ‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’ by Margaret Drabble
- ‘G-String’ by Nicola Barker
- ‘Louise’ by Somerset Maugham
- ‘Let Me Count The Times’ by Martin Amis
- ‘Wolf-Alice’ by Angela Carter
- ‘Nadine At Forty’ by Hilary Mantel
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