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Getting a Life

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by Helen Simpson ...

Series series Vintage Contemporaries
Hilarious, dark, and thoroughly entertaining, Getting a Life proves Helen Simpson to be one of the finest observers of women on the edge. Set in and around contemporary London, these nine stories explore both the blisses and irritations of domestic life.An ambitious teenager vows never to settle for any of the adult lives she sees around her. Two old friends get tipsy at a small cafe and end up ... Read more

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Hilarious, dark, and thoroughly entertaining, Getting a Life proves Helen Simpson to be one of the finest observers of women on the edge. Set in and around contemporary London, these nine stories explore both the blisses and irritations of domestic life.An ambitious teenager vows never to settle for any of the adult lives she sees around her. Two old friends get tipsy at a small cafe and end up
... Read more
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Wonder Of Women - The Weird Stories - Volume 2

Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Shelley, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Lettice Galbraith, Edith Nesbit, H D Everett writing as Theo Parker, Charlotte Riddell, Bessie Kyffin Taylor, Lady Eleanor Smith, Helen Simpson, Amelia Edwards, Sarah Orne Jewett, Vernon Lee ...

Narrated by Laurel Lefkow, Liza Ross, George Irving ...

Unabridged

8 hours 48 min

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on ... Read more

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Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on
... Read more
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Top 10 Short Stories, The - The 1920's - The English - The Women

The top ten short stories written in the 1920s by female authors from England

by Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, Alicia Ramsay, Bessie Kyffin-Taylor.wav, Elinor Mordaunt, Helen Simpson, Marjorie Bowen, Mary Cholmondeley, Mary Webb, Violet Hunt ...

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe, David Shaw-Parker, Marie-Pierre ...

Unabridged

6 hours 26 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Her Dark Materials - Volume 4

Mary E Penn to Virginia Woolf

by Mary E Penn, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Kate and Hesketh Pritchard, Violet Quirk, Alicia Ramsay, Katherine Rickford, Charlotte Riddell, Gertrude Minnie Robins, Mary Shelley, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Helen Simpson, May Sinclair, Lady Eleanor Smith, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Hesba Stretton, Emma Vane, Clara Venn, Mary Webb, Catherine Wells, Edith Wharton, Ethel Lina White, Mrs Ellen Wood, Virginia Woolf ...

Narrated by Lisa Bowerman, Marie-Pierre, Ghizela Rowe ...

Unabridged

12 hours 14 min

In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile ... Read more

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In these more welcome days of equality between the sexes we usually forget that the often cited ‘Gentler Sex’ can have dark and disturbing trains of thought that are more than the equal of their male brethren. Indeed, they can manipulate words in a matter of lines from comforting and loving to dark, foreboding and utterly terrifying. These femme fatales really do create stories that leech vile
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Enter Sir John

by Clemence Dane, Helen Simpson ...

A celebrated English stage actor must prove an ingénue innocent of murder in this classic Golden Age mystery.A touring troupe of actors has come to the English village of Peridu to stage a play featuring promising young star Martella Baring. But it's not the show that has everyone talking after Martella is found beside the body of the troupe manger's wife . . .Actor and theater owner Sir John ... Read more

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A celebrated English stage actor must prove an ingénue innocent of murder in this classic Golden Age mystery.A touring troupe of actors has come to the English village of Peridu to stage a play featuring promising young star Martella Baring. But it's not the show that has everyone talking after Martella is found beside the body of the troupe manger's wife . . .Actor and theater owner Sir John
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Top 10 Short Stories – The 1920’s – The Women, The

The top ten Short Stories of the 1920's written by female authors

by Radclyffe Hall, Ellen Glasgow, Dorothy Edwards, Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Alicia Ramsay, Elinor Mordaunt, Helen Simpson, Mary Cholmonderly, Mary Webb ...

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Ghizela Rowe, Eve Karpf ...

Unabridged

6 hours 53 min

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will
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Enter Sir John. Illustrated

by Clemence Dane, Helen Simpson ...

Enter Sir John is a captivating blend of courtroom drama, theatrical flair, and classic detective fiction, co-written by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. This golden age mystery introduces readers to the charismatic Sir John Saumarez—a renowned actor-manager who unexpectedly steps into the role of amateur sleuth when a murder casts a dark shadow over the London stage. When young actress Martella ... Read more

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Enter Sir John is a captivating blend of courtroom drama, theatrical flair, and classic detective fiction, co-written by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. This golden age mystery introduces readers to the charismatic Sir John Saumarez—a renowned actor-manager who unexpectedly steps into the role of amateur sleuth when a murder casts a dark shadow over the London stage. When young actress Martella
... Read more
Cockfosters

Stories

by Helen Simpson ...

A wickedly wry, tender new collection from one of our finest internationally acclaimed short story writers.Nine virtuoso stories that take up the preoccupations and fixations of time's passing and of middle age and that take us from today's London and Berlin to the wild west of the USA and the wilder shores of Mother Russia; stories finely balanced between devastation and optimism.In the title ... Read more

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A wickedly wry, tender new collection from one of our finest internationally acclaimed short story writers.Nine virtuoso stories that take up the preoccupations and fixations of time's passing and of middle age and that take us from today's London and Berlin to the wild west of the USA and the wilder shores of Mother Russia; stories finely balanced between devastation and optimism.In the title
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Hotel Evidence

by Helen Simpson ...

Narrated by Peter Coates ...

Unabridged

23 min

"Hotel Evidence" is a brilliant new collection of short stories from the award-winning master of the form, Helen Simpson. With her signature wit, sharp observation, and profound empathy, Simpson explores the quiet complexities, sudden fractures, and unexpected truths embedded in everyday life and human relationships. Moving from the comical to the poignant, these finely crafted narratives offer a ... Read more

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"Hotel Evidence" is a brilliant new collection of short stories from the award-winning master of the form, Helen Simpson. With her signature wit, sharp observation, and profound empathy, Simpson explores the quiet complexities, sudden fractures, and unexpected truths embedded in everyday life and human relationships. Moving from the comical to the poignant, these finely crafted narratives offer a
... Read more

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In-Flight Entertainment

Stories

by Helen Simpson ...

Series series Vintage Contemporaries
A new collection of stories—dazzling, poignant, wickedly funny, and highly addictive—by the internationally acclaimed writer whose work The Times (London) calls “dangerously close to perfection.” These thirteen stories brilliantly focus on aspects of contemporary living and unerringly capture a generation, a type, a social class, a pattern of behavior. They give us the small detail that reveals ... Read more

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A new collection of stories—dazzling, poignant, wickedly funny, and highly addictive—by the internationally acclaimed writer whose work The Times (London) calls “dangerously close to perfection.” These thirteen stories brilliantly focus on aspects of contemporary living and unerringly capture a generation, a type, a social class, a pattern of behavior. They give us the small detail that reveals
... Read more
Hotel Evidence

by Helen Simpson ...

Hotel Evidence by Helen Simpson is a finely crafted short mystery that showcases the author’s talent for combining sharp observation, subtle characterization, and quietly mounting suspense. Set within the confined and deceptively ordinary surroundings of a hotel, the story transforms an everyday location into the stage for deception, hidden motives, and unexpected crime. When a troubling incident ... Read more

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Hotel Evidence by Helen Simpson is a finely crafted short mystery that showcases the author’s talent for combining sharp observation, subtle characterization, and quietly mounting suspense. Set within the confined and deceptively ordinary surroundings of a hotel, the story transforms an everyday location into the stage for deception, hidden motives, and unexpected crime. When a troubling incident
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Ask a Policeman

by The Detection Club, Agatha Christie, Martin Edwards, John Rhode, Helen Simpson, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, Milward Kennedy ...

Series series The Detection Club
With "a touch of genius," this round-robin mystery follow-up to The Floating Admiral features famous detectives including Lord Peter Wimsey ( The Times Literary Supplement).Following the success of The Floating Admiral, in which certain members of the Detection Club—including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton—collaborated on a whodunit, six writers pooled their talents to ... Read more

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With "a touch of genius," this round-robin mystery follow-up to The Floating Admiral features famous detectives including Lord Peter Wimsey ( The Times Literary Supplement).Following the success of The Floating Admiral, in which certain members of the Detection Club—including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton—collaborated on a whodunit, six writers pooled their talents to
... Read more

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