{"id":5812,"date":"2019-02-26T17:48:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=5812"},"modified":"2019-02-26T17:48:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:48:45","slug":"brought-to-book-by-mary-wings-barbara-wilson-2-stella-duffy-penny-sumner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/brought-to-book-by-mary-wings-barbara-wilson-2-stella-duffy-penny-sumner\/","title":{"rendered":"Brought to Book by Mary Wings; Barbara Wilson (2); Stella Duffy; Penny Sumner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brought to Book<\/em><\/h2>\n

Murderous Stories from the Literary World<\/em><\/h3>\n

Mary Wings; Barbara Wilson (2); Stella Duffy; Penny Sumner<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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This anthology of short crime stories by women writers includes contributions from Mary Wings, Barbara Wilson, and Stella Duffy, amongst others. It features plots where an author wreaks an awful revenge on an interfering editor, a murderer blights a sales conference, and a treacherous breach of faith occurs at an awards dinner.<\/p>\n

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From Kirkus Reviews<\/p>\n

Or intrepid women take on the literary establishment, as youd expect from the imprint on this collection of 15 mostly new stories (three date back to 1994). Within this imperative, the contributors find surprising variety, though there’s no shortage of males to oppress female editors (Barbara Paul and Dale Gunthorp), translators (Barbara Wilson), printers (Margaret Wilkinson), and sales reps (Joan M. Drury). More typically, women writers struggle to balance the identities they can achieve through writing with the politics of wrestling for power in the world of publishing. The few stories of straight detection are undistinguished, and most of the others are calculated to make male readers ears burn. But the target audience will be delighted with the grave playfulness of Susan Dunlaps murderous tontine, the shape-shifting of Stella Duffys and Robyn Vintens metafictions, the dishy faux revelations of Christina Lee’s vampirish parasite, and the changes resourceful editor Sumner (Crosswords, 1995, etc.) rings on the hysterical female stalker. Brightly entertaining sociology-cum-bonding masquerading as crime fiction. — Copyright \u00a91999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. <\/p>\n

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Includes:<\/p>\n

Bad Review Susan Dunlap<\/p>\n

Pikeman and the Bagwoman Dale Gunthorp<\/p>\n

Luisa Christina Lee<\/p>\n

Could be Better Stella Duffy<\/p>\n

Shame the Devil Millie Murray<\/p>\n

Empty Arms Mary Wings<\/p>\n

At the Premier’s Literary Awards Melissa Chan<\/p>\n

Wie Bitte? Barbara Wilson<\/p>\n

Character Witness Robyn Vinten<\/p>\n

Murder at the Sales Meeting Joan M.Drury<\/p>\n

Four Characters, Four Lunches Finola Moorhead<\/p>\n

A Man’s Book Margaret Wilkinson<\/p>\n

STET Barbara Paul<\/p>\n

For Your Eyes Only Penny Sumner<\/p>\n

With Mary Wings, Barbara Wilson, Stella Duffy and many more.<\/p>\n

Authors wreaking revenge on editors, perfidious plots at award dinners, murders at sales conferences and in writers’ groups – in Brought to Book top women crime writers expose the lethal reality of the literary world \u0085<\/p><\/div>\n

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