The Golden Age of British Short Stories, 1890-1914The quarter century or so before the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain. Fuelled by a large new magazine readership and vigorous competition to acquire new stories and develop the careers of some of our greatest writers, these years were ones where the normal rule of thumb (novels sell, short stories don't) was inverted. This was the era of Sherlock Holmes, of Kipling's

village or city

Following the acclaimed 'Things I Don't Want to Know'

I am a terrible hypochondriach

and despair

and with stellar performers that include Billy Connolly and Tracey Ullman

With a sense of foreboding he steps ashore where three lighthouse keepers disappeared more than a century before - a mystery that remains unsolved

and of the collision between youthful idealism and jaded reality as the Sixties drew to a close

The figure of Taliesin is a mystery

Can FBI agent Dan Atwater

the history and landscape of Ireland

'The Island' is the second thrilling book in Ragnar Jonasson's 'Hidden Iceland' trilogy

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