Tea or Books? #29: short stories (yes or no?) and Bricks and Mortar vs Princes in the Land

Two more Persephones in this episode – Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton and Princes in the Land by Joanna Cannan – along with a discussion of short stories: which writers we like and don’t like, and whether or not we’d race

Two more Persephones in this episode – Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton and Princes in the Land by Joanna Cannan – along with a discussion of short stories: which writers we like and don’t like, and whether or not we’d race towards short stories in a bookshop.

As always, we’d love to know your choices – and any topics or books you’d like us to cover in future episodes.

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Here are the (many!) books and authors we discuss in this episode:

H.G. Wells and His Family (as I have known them) by M.M. Meyer

Ivy Compton-Burnett: A Memoir by Cicely Greig

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell

Death in the Tunnel by Miles Burton

The Secret of High Eldersham by Miles Burton

The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley

The Golden Age by Martin Edwards

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Terms and Conditions by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

Edgar Allan Poe

Agatha Christie

Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

Katherine Mansfield – ‘At the Bay’, ‘Prelude’, ‘Miss Brill’, ‘Bliss’, ‘The Garden Party’

The Closed Door and other stories by Dorothy Whipple

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi

Elizabeth Taylor

The Woman Who Borrowed Memories: Selected Stories by Tove Jansson

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner

The Love-Child by Edith Olivier

Richard Yates

William Maxwell

‘A Christmas Memory’ by Truman Capote

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

‘The Landlady’ by Roald Dahl

‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

‘After You, My Dear Alphonse’ by Shirley Jackson

Daphne du Maurier

A Table Near the Band and other stories by A.A. Milne

The Birthday Party and other stories by A.A. Milne

A.L. Kennedy

The Montana Stories

Tea With Mr Rochester by Frances Towers

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Tell it to a Stranger by Elizabeth Berridge

The Woman Novelist and other stories by Diana Gardner

Princes in the Land by Joanna Cannan

Bricks and Mortar by Helen Ashton

Hostages to Fortune by Elizabeth Cambridge

High Table by Joanna Cannan

Parson Austen’s Daughter by Helen Ashton

Return to Cheltenham by Helen Ashton

Greengates by R.C. Sherriff

Greenbanks by Dorothy Whipple

The Fortnight in September by R.C. Sherriff

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark