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
Another Man
“…a highly cerebral book that proves to be as enigmatically haunting as it is intellectually stimulating.“
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH