Library Books & Short Story September 2025

Published on by Margaret

The mobile library van came yesterday and I borrowed three books of short stories to read for Short Story September 2025.

I’ve read books by each of the three following authors before:

Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P D James – each one with the dark motive of revenge.

Normal Rules Don’t Apply by Kate Atkinson – Eleven interconnected stories, where everything is changing, where nothing is quite as it seems.

Six Stories and an Essay by Andrea Levy – This collection opens with an essay about how writing has helped Andrea Levy to explore and understand her heritage. She explains the context of each piece within the chronology of her career and finishes with a new story, written to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.

I also borrowed two other books:

The Gardener by Salley Vickers – Previously I’ve read five books by Vickers, and enjoyed them, especially Miss Garnet’s Angel and Mr Golightly’s Holiday. The last one I read was The Librarian, which I thought was rather underwhelming. I hope this one is better.

Nine Lives by Peter Swanson – I haven’t read any of Swanson’s books, but keep seeing them on book blogs and thought I’d see if I like this one.

6 thoughts on “Library Books & Short Story September 2025”

  1. I like your choices, Margaret! P.D. James, Kate Atkinson, Peter Swanson, they’re all talented. I’ve not read their short stories before, though, so I’ll be keen to know what you think of them.

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  2. How lovely that you still get a mobile library, I have fond memories of similar from my youth about the afternoon that the mobile library came nearby. We had to cycle to it and could pick it up from a couple of locations, but I loved it.

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