Sailor Song
by Ken Kesey | 
Dark Angel
by Sally Beauman | 
Asa, as I Knew Him
by Susanna Kaysen | 
Splitting
by Fay Weldon | 
Love for Lydia
by H. E. Bates |
The Motel Life
by Willy Vlautin | 
The Finishing School
by Muriel Spark | 
The Parasites
by Daphne Du Maurier | 
Athena
by John Banville | 
To the Wedding
by John Berger | 
A Ripple from the Storm
by Doris Lessing | 
Starcarbon
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
The Neon Bible
by John Kennedy Toole | 
Panama
by Thomas McGuane | 
A Friend from England
by Anita Brookner | 
The Greeks Have a Word for It
by Barry Unsworth | 
Losing Nelson
by Barry Unsworth | 
The Ruby in Her Navel
by Barry Unsworth | 
The Rage of the Vulture
by Barry Unsworth | 
Iokaste
by Victoria Grossack |
In 1908, on a small Greek island, Basile Pascali receives payment for reporting the activities of people in his community, and when he thinks the townspeople have discovered his secret, he becomes trapped in a world of paranoia, as a dashing Englishman steals the heart of the woman he loves, causing his world to come crashing down around him. Reprint.