Story Calendar

December 2018

A Story for December: Blowing In for Christmas

Now this story that I’m about to tell you is true. People think that authors make things up – and, by and large, that is quite correct. They do. They spin the most unlikely tales…

November 2018

A Story for November: The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs

Not technically a story…but an article from 2011 about custody battles, pet seals, German names, and sausage dogs.

October 2018

A story for October: Small birds, like painted chickens

Small birds, like painted chickens first appeared in the Good Housekeeping magazine. From the very beginning it had been an ideal arrangement. After Anne had the baby—eight months afterwards—she had been able to go back to work again with complete confidence that everything would run smoothly. She was a doctor and did not want to stop […]

September 2018

A Story for September: A Wartime Romance

An extract from The Good Pilot, Peter Woodhouse.

August 2018

A Story for August: A Most Satisfactory Weekend

Most satisfactory… George Leary waved good-bye to his wife at St Pancras Station. There’s the train to Paris, he thought, and there’s my wife boarding it. Good riddance … No, no, no! He stopped himself. It was a terrible thing to think even if she would never know that the thought had crossed his mind. Bon […]

July 2018

A Story for July: The Sound of… Austria

This ‘tongue in cheek’ story set in Austria first appeared in The Lady magazine. The Sound of … Mary had been christened Maria, but had changed her name when she was eighteen. “It’s not that I’ve got anything against the name Maria,” she said to friends. “It’s just that I don’t see myself as a Maria. I just […]

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