Matilda Bathurst

The secret life of the short story

They’re modest in scale, but can conceal a tendency to megalomania. Reviews of D.J. Taylor’s Wrote For Luck and The Boy Who Could See Death by Salley Vickers

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issue 04 April 2015

  • Wrote For Luck

    D.J. Taylor

    Galley Beggar Press, pp. 250

  • The Boy Who Could See Death

    Sally Vickers

    Viking, pp. 224

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