Great Modern Stories

by Angela Huth, Janet McTeer (Narrator), Alan Sillitoe

Fans of quality literature can expand their experience of the short story form with this exciting collection of unabridged works. Authors include important talents past and present and cover a bracing range of genres, from ghost stories and domestic dramas to mysteries and character studies. Ruth Rendell, Barry Unsworth, A. S. Byatt, Angela Huth, Frederic Raphael, Haruki Murakami, Alan Sillitoe, Fay Weldon, and Patrick O'Brian are among the talents represented here. Readers include such notables as Janet McTeer, Rosalind Ayres, and Walter Lewis.

Genres: Short Stories

4 pages, Audio CD

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Daughter of actor Harold Huth, english novelist Angela Huth married journalist and travel writer Quentin Crewe in the 1960s and with him had a daughter. She presented programmes on the BBC, including How It Is and Why and Man Alive.

She also writes plays for radio, television and stage, and is a well-known freelance journalist, critic and broadcaster. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

She has been married to a don, James Howard-Johnston, since 1978. They live in Warwickshire and have one daughter, Eugenie Teasley.

Reviews

[Bayneeta]

Twenty-three short stories, mostly British or the British abroad. I was familiar with about a third of the authors.