Author: Kate Mosse, Leila Aboulela, Hanan al-Shaykh, Joanna Cannon, Alison Case, Juno Dawson, Louise Doughty, Sophie Hannah, Anna James, Nikesh Shukla, Louisa Young
Narrator: Karen Cogan, Dami Olukoya, Lucy Brownhill, Lara Sawalha, Freddie Gaminara
Unabridged: 7 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 08/16/2018
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Anthologies, Classic, Gothic
KATE MOSSE, CBE, is a multiple New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author with sales of more than eight million copies in thirty-eight languages. Her previous novels include Labyrinth, Sepulchre, The Winter Ghosts, Citadel, The Taxidermist’s Daughter, and The Burning Chambers. Kate is the founder director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, a visiting professor at the University of Chichester, and in June 2013, was awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature. She divides her time between Chichester in the United Kingdom and Carcassonne in France.
Just like the title suggests, this is book has stories inspired by one of my favourite books of all time, Wuthering Heights. Really enjoyed reading I Am Heathcliff 💕......more
Fantastic collection of short stories inspired by Wuthering Heights. I enjoyed each one of the sixteen stories included which is rare for a short story collection. Some were inspired by themes in the novel and some were more like retellings but each one made a strong impression. Some left me feeling......more
Hmm. I enjoyed the concept but it ended up taking me a long time to read because some of the stories were a lot better than others. I really enjoyed the ones with ghosts and things unseen. Less so much the stories where Cathy and Heathcliff’s relationship was exactly mirrored in modern day tales. Wu......more
As a huge fan of "Withering heights" I really wanted to read this one. A short story collection based o Emily Bronte's classic novel, edited by Bronte fan Kate Mosse. Enjoyed some of the stories more than others but a terrific read overall.......more
Absolutely innovative and out of the box! My faves were: 1. Anima 2. Thicker Than Blood 3. The Howling Girl 4. The Cord 5. Heathcliffs I Have Known 6. The Wildflowers (BEST STORY OF THEM ALL!!!!!) 7. Only Joseph (SECOND BEST STORY OF THEM ALL!!!!!)......more
‘Inspired by Wuthering Heights, these tales of toxic relationships, an entirely disturbing episode of stalking and necrophilia, blighted lives and bleak landscapes reveal that contemporary responses to Emily Bronte’s endlessly controversial classic can be equally stark, cruel and shocking’ Daily Mail ‘Visceral writing that lays bare the savagery of Heathcliff’ Financial Times ‘Tales of toxic relationships, a hungry, howling, anorexic ghost, drug addled lovers and blighted lives and landscapes … But there are surprises in store, too. Crime writer Sophie Hannah delivers a high school musical murder mystery while Louisa Young’s Heathcliffs I Have Known is a furious, funny, riotous rant on the role of this supposedly romantic hero’ Sunday Express S Magazine ‘In the wonderful, wistful One Letter Different by Joanna Cannon, two teenagers head to the moors in silent, secretive communion’ Daily Mail ‘Louisa Young’s furious, funny, righteous rant redresses the ‘romantic’ hero myth as she recites the violent misdemeanours of bad boyfriends in Heathcliffs I Have Known’ Daily Mail