Nabokov's Dozen Christina Dalcher Who better to take you

Who better to take you through its less savoury side

Ray Celestin's Palace of Shadows can lay claim to having at its centre the most Gothic House of them all

This is the story of that legendary aircraft told through that one impossible mission

will Terry be able to negotiate life after a terrible event robs him of his sexual virility

Rip learns he has been away from the village for at least twenty years

Nabokov's Dozen Christina Dalcher Who better to take youThirteen strangely wrought, ingeniously crafted stories make up Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam