Mark Twain
Mark Twain is the legendary pen name of Samuel I. Clemens, whose central place in the American literary pantheon remains assured […]
Žemaitė
Žemaitė is the pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė, who was born to Lithuanian gentry in Samogitia, in the country’s northwest […]
O. Henry
O. Henry is the author of hundreds of short stories. He is renowned for his wordplay and “twist” endings, yet […]
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and moved to Britain as a teenager. She is considered one of the […]
D H Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English writer and literary critic. Born poor in a mining town in Nottinghamshire, he began […]
Rūdolfs Blaumanis
Rūdolfs Blaumanis one of Latvia’s greatest writers, is noted especially for his numerous short stories and plays, and for his […]
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin and lived mainly in London and Paris. He remains one of the most […]
The Prophet
‘To read it was to transcend ordinary levels of perception, to become aware … of a more intense level of being’
THE INDEPENDENT
Million-Story City
“Marcus Preece believed in the transformative power of a well-wrought story.”
THE GUARDIAN
The Machine Stops
“The Machine Stops is not simply prescient; it is a jaw-droppingly, gob-smackingly, breathtakingly accurate literary description of lockdown life.”
WILL GOMPERTZ, BBC