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COMPLETE SHORT STORIES by Elizabeth Taylor
Short stories | 576pp | Virago | June 2012| Korea: --- | Japan: EAJ
‘Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great
compassion and great depth.’ Sarah Waters
In 1945 the publication of AT MRS LIPPINCOTE'S launched Elizabeth Taylor's career. The author of
twelve novels and four collections of short stories, she excelled at unravelling the comedies and
hidden tragedies of ordinary life. COMPLETE SHORT STORIES includes all four collections, as well as
some stories that have never been collected before. This collection – published to celebrate the
centenary of Taylor‟s birth - celebrates a formidable stylist whose work has delighted readers and
critics for fifty years. Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) was born in Reading, Berkshire and spent much
of her life in Penn, Buckinghamshire. She is one of the most acclaimed British writers of the
twentieth century.
‘Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: one of great subtlety, great
compassion and great depth’ – Sarah Waters; ‘Taylor's wicked, subversive stories are a mordant delight’ –
Sunday Times; „Taylor has remarkable skill. In all the stories there is a peculiarly satisfying mixture of wit and
generosity. Their human depth is such that they can be read again and again’ – Margaret Drabble
VALENTINE GREY by Sandi Toksvig
General Fiction | 352pp |Virago | September 2012 | Korea: --- | Japan - EAJ
A wonderful novel about gender, liberty, empire and injustice.
London 1887 and a young girl, Valentine Grey, arrives in England. She's been brought up in
the remote and sunny climes of India and finds being forced into corsets and skirts in damp
and cold country insufferable. The only bright spot: her exciting cousin, Reggie. Reggie, and
his lover Frank seek out the adventure, the clandestine bars and streets of London offer and
are happy to include Valentine in their secret, showing her theatre, gardens - even teaching
her how to ride a bicycle. And then comes the Boer War and Reggie's father volunteers him;
the empire must be defended. But it won't be Reggie who dons the Volunteer Regiment's
garb. Valentine takes her chance, puts on her cousin's uniform, leaving Reggie behind and
heads off to war. And for a long while it's glorious and liberating for both of the cousins, but
war is not glorious and in Victorian London homosexuality is not liberating. Following a firstclass
degree from Cambridge, Sandi Toksvig went into the theatre as a writer and performer
and was a founder member of the Comedy Store Players. She is the author of THE CHAIN OF
CURIOSITY (Sphere 2009) and MELTED INTO AIR (Sphere 2006).
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUPPER by Wayne Williams and Darren Allan
Thriller | Piatkus | April 2013| Korea: --- | Japan: ---
Revenge is a dish best served biblical
Two days after Jesus Christ's crucifixion, Judas Iscariot receives an anonymous note stating, I know what you
did. Wrapped with it is an eye, complete with trailing optic nerve, and a splintered tooth - trophies ripped
from two recently butchered friends. Someone, it seems, knows what Judas did on that fateful night following
the Last Supper. And that someone is intent on exacting a bloody and gruesome revenge. As more
acquaintances and family members die in increasingly brutal ways, Judas finds himself in a desperate race
against time to make amends for his act of treachery, and to uncover the identity of the mysterious hooded
killer. A relentlessly paced, gripping thriller, which further explores one of the darkest bargains in human
history. You might just find yourself engaged in the unthinkable: rooting for the man who betrayed Christ.
Wayne Williams and Darren Allan have previously had two non-fiction books published: THE CRAP OLD DAYS
(Prion, October 2008) and 1001 RIDICULOUS WAYS TO LOSE A FORTUNE (Prion, October 2009).
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