Katherine Mansfield was the pen name of Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888-1923), a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction. She is widely considered one of the best short story writers of...
The Magical Monarch of Mo (1898) was the first full-length children's fantasy book by L. Frank Baum. Originally published in 1899 as 'A New Wonderland', the book was reissued in 1903 with a new title...
To many, Urban Legends are nothing more than harmless tales told round a camp fire, in a dormitory or round a table in a pub with the express aim of provoking a frisson of fear in the listener through...
Oscar Wilde (1854 –1900) was an Irish playwright, poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian...
In this classic late-nineteenth-century story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a new mother suffering from what we might today call 'post-partum depression', is diagnosed with a nervous disorder.
Instructed...
Alan Partridge meets The League Of Gentlemen. Directed by Edgar Wright and a young George Lucas...
Bob Flint is a man with a dream. A dream of running his own bar, Bob’s Bar.
The only trouble is, since...
For motorcycle ace Axel Warlow it takes a journey to the Isle of Man TT races to find that the apple never falls far from the tree. Saying Goodbye is Never Easy transports the listener to the world famous...
Sometimes an offer is just too good to refuse, but when reluctant racer Axel Warlow returns to the Isle of Man TT he unleashes a series of events that threaten to change his life forever.
In Perish and...
On Christmas Eve, a party of friends descends on a purportedly haunted country retreat, charged with the task of discovering evidence of the supernatural. Sequestered in their rooms for the holiday, the...
Following the great success of Three Men in a Boat a friend of mine said, "Well now, why don't you write a sensible book? I should like to see you make people think." "Do you believe it can be done then?"...
