Short stories
The food of love
Jane Ridley 4 January 2014 9:00 am
The Albek Duo are two astonishingly beautiful and talented Venetian musicians, Fiona and Ambra, who are identical twins. Hearing the…
Boundless blessings
Matilda Bathurst 30 November 2013 9:00 am
Ann Patchett’s novels revel in the tightly constructed ecosystems imagined for their characters: an opera singer besieged among diplomats in…
Inspiration from the past
Emily Rhodes 3 August 2013 9:00 am
Pastoral elegy is not what you expect to find in a collection of short stories, but then Ali Smith is…







