Don't Know A Good Thing

The Asham Award Collection

By: Kate Pullinger (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 May 2006 | Edition Number 1

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'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Dunmore, Trezza Azzopardi, Helen Simpson, Louise Doughty, Marina Warner and Lynne Truss plus twelve stories from the unpublished writers who were shortlisted for the Asham Short-Story Prize 2005.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.

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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

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Fiction Fiction in Translation and Short Stories Short Stories Modern & Contemporary Fiction

In Heaven there is no beer	p. 5
Good dog	p. 19
The wing	p. 27
Hwang	p. 39
The Turnover Bridge	p. 49
Threads	p. 63
Remnants	p. 73
Eminem and the Virgin Mary	p. 85
Initiation at Graaff-Reinet	p. 95
With Shackleton	p. 105
Rounding the corner	p. 119
Don't know a good thing	p. 129
Into each heart	p. 141
Elvis has entered the building	p. 153
Winnebago nomad	p. 165
Up at a villa	p. 177
Holding the baby	p. 183
After the fox	p. 191
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Don't Know A Good Thing

The Asham Award Collection

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