In 1906 Bernard Shaw addressed the annual dinner of the Society of Authors:
Sweat Shop Labour
David Caute
‘The aim is to coax the writer out of the isolation which keeps one end of the publishing industry comfortably in the nineteenth century.’
40 years of Granta

The Silkworms
Nothing to see here!

Peace Shall Destroy Many
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

Blue Sky Days
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

Vladimir in Love
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

The Transition
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know? What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
David Caute
David Caute is an author, playwright, academic, journalist, former literary editor of the New Statesman and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His books include Under the Skin, The Women's Hour, a documentary history of the war in Rhodesia, and The K-Factor, a novel.
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