Midsummer Nights

Midsummer Nights

Published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Glyndebourne Festival, this is an anthology of opera-inspired stories by some of the best writers of today: Anne Enright, Kate Atkinson, Andrew O'Hagan, Julie Myerson, Sebastian Barry are but a few of the names involved.

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Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel. Since then she has written eight other novels, including The Passion and been published in 32 countries, as well as adapting her work for TV, film and stage. She lives in Gloucestershire and London.

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Introduction - Jeanette Winterson.
First Lady of Song - Jackie Kay.
Fidelio and Bess - Ali Smith.
Freedom - Sebastian Barry.
To Die For - Kate Atkinson.
The Growler - Julie Myerson.
The Ghost - Toby Litt.
Nemo - Joanna Trollope.
The Pearl Fishers - Colm Toibin.
Key Note - Anne Enright.
First Snow - Andrew O'Hagan.
Midsummer Night at Glyndebourne - Posy Simmonds.
Goldrush Girl - Jeanette Winterson.
The Martyr - Ruth Rendell.
String and Air - Lynne Truss.
The Empty Seat - Paul Bailey.
My Lovely Countess - Antonia Fraser.
La Fille de Melisande - Kate Mosse.
Now the Great Bear
- Andrew Motion.
Forget My Fate - Marina Warner.
The Albanians - Alexander McCall Smith.
Notes on the Operas - Margaret Reynolds.
About Glyndebourne.
Notes on the Contributors.