This year's best read?

Good Housekeeping brings you stories by the top contemporary writers - and boy are they good!

The UK's popular, best-selling women writers have contributed to Good Housekeeping's first short story collection, Great Escapes. From sad and wistful to humorous and sharp, they are all guaranteed to transport you to a world outside your own.

 

Check out the authors... Rose Tremain, Fay Weldon, Deborah Moggach, Lesley Pearse, Kate Mosse, Helen Simpson, Isabel Wolff, Natasha Cooper, Virginia Ironside, Polly Samson, Pat Ferguson, Nell Leyshon, Amanda Craig, Jane Elizabeth Varley, Kathy Lette and Nicci Gerrard. Out 7 July 2008, £8.99

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