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Don't Know A Good Thing

The Asham Award Collection

Kate Pullinger editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:3rd Apr '06

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The Asham Award is a biennial award for short stories by women which, since 1996, has been promoting and encouraging innovative, ground-breaking writing for the future Features six commissioned writers (Helen Dunmore, Trezza Azzopardi, Helen Simpson, Louise Doughty, Marina Warner and Lynne Truss) and twelve finalists of the biannual Asham Award

A collection of short stories by women.'As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world' Virginia Woolf Our world has been conjured by the talented writers collected here. These wonderful and evocative stories have a truly international flavour, taking us from icy Alaska to the burnt outback of Australia, and include tales of murder, loss of innocence, revenge, heroism and hope. This vibrant collection contains new stories by Helen Dunmore, Trezza Azzopardi, Helen Simpson, Louise Doughty, Marina Warner and Lynne Truss plus twelve stories from the unpublished writers who were shortlisted for the Asham Short-Story Prize 2005. Asham House in Sussex was once home to Virginia and Leonard Woolf and is the inspiration behind the Asham Award. Launched in 1996 to support and encourage new writers, it is Britain's only prize for short stories by women.

Praise for Shoe Fly Baby: 'The writing is top quality, regardless of the individual authors' fame, and there's something here for everyone' Glamour 'One of the most pleasurable aspects of this anthology is its combining of excellent new stories alongside the work of newcomers' The Times

ISBN: 9780747581833

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224 pages