Books by Barbara Comyns
“I really recommend it. Comyns writes in a simplistic, beautiful way. It’s quite fairytale-like, though it all ends very badly. There are echoes of Shirley Jackson, maybe, especially We Have Always Lived in the Castle.” Read more...
Claire Fuller, Novelist
Interviews where books by Barbara Comyns were recommended
The Best Novellas, recommended by Claire Fuller
The acclaimed novelist Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground, recommends five of the best novellas: short works of fiction that offer the power and intensity of a novel in little more than 100 pages. From an epic-in-miniature set in the American West to an infamous story of bestial love, these books offer short, sharp shocks of fiction that can be enjoyed over a single evening.
