Story: ‘Security’
Elspeth Davie, 19 February 1981
‘And I’m not really supposed to sit down at all,’ said the young man. ‘Not on this kind of a job.’
Elspeth Davie
Elspeth Davie third collection of short stories, The Night of the Funny Hats, was published in the spring of last year.
Pieces about Elspeth Davie in the LRB
Going to bed with an author on your reading list
Stephen Wall, 28 September 1989
Michael Frayn hasn’t published a novel for 16 years, but it’s immediately clear from his new one that he hasn’t lost the trick of it. After so long a lay-off some...
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