Malcolm LowryStrange Comfort Afforded by the Profession
(from Hear Us O Lord From Heaven Thy Dwelling Place)
(from Collected Shorter Prose 1945–80)
(from The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen)
(from V. S. Pritchett: Collected Stories)
(from Adventures in the Skin Trade)
Graham GreeneThe Invisible Japanese Gentlemen
(from May We Borrow Your Husband)
Angus WilsonMore Friend Than Lodger
(from Tigers Are Better Looking)
William GoldingMiss Pulkinhorn
(from Kingsley Amis: Collected Short Stories)
Alan SillitoeThe Fishing-boat Picture
(from The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner)
Muriel SparkThe House of the Famous Poet
J. G. BallardMemories of the Space Age
William TrevorA Meeting in Middle Age
(from The Stories of William Trevor)
Edna O’BrienIn the Hours of Darkness
(from Mrs Reinhardt and Other Stories)
B. S. JohnsonA Few Selected Sentences
(from Aren’t You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs?)
(from Who Do You Think You Are?)
(from Watching Me Watching You)
Beryl BainbridgeClap Hands, Here Comes Charlie
Angela CarterFlesh and the Mirror
Martin AmisLet me Count the Times
Rose TremainMy Wife is a White Russian
Salman RushdieThe Prophet’s Hair
(from London Review of Books, 16 August 1981)