Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and moved to Britain as a teenager. She is considered one of the […]
Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and moved to Britain as a teenager. She is considered one of the […]
David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English writer and literary critic. Born poor in a mining town in Nottinghamshire, he began […]
Rūdolfs Blaumanis one of Latvia’s greatest writers, is noted especially for his numerous short stories and plays, and for his […]
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin and lived mainly in London and Paris. He remains one of the most […]
“To read it was to transcend ordinary levels of perception, to become aware … of a more intense level of being“
THE INDEPENDENT
“Marcus Preece believed in the transformative power of a well-wrought story.“
THE GUARDIAN
“The Machine Stops is not simply prescient; it is a jaw-droppingly, gob-smackingly, breathtakingly accurate literary description of lockdown life.“
WILL GOMPERTZ, BBC
“…a highly cerebral book that proves to be as enigmatically haunting as it is intellectually stimulating.“
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
“The Commonwealth Short Story Prize gives us a wonderful glimpse of the short story coming alive around the world.“
ROMESH GUNESEKERA
“Beautiful, profoundly moving…“
JOANNA KAVENNA, author of THE ICE MUSEUM