My People (short story collection) My People (short story collection) My People is a collection of short stories by Caradoc Evans, first published in 1915 by Andrew Melrose and highly controversial at the time. It is subtitled "Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales". The work has been compared with Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio", James Joyce's "Dubliners" (which came out a year earlier although after the text of "My People" had been completed and submitted to - and rejected by - Stanley Unwin), and "The House with the Green Shutters" by George Douglas Brown. In its context of early 20th century Nonconformism, the book was
The Man in Grey (short story collection) The Man in Grey (short story collection) The Man in Grey by Baroness Orczy, author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel", was first published in 1918. This time Orczy sets the action in post-revolutionary France. The book takes the form of a novel but is divided up into nine inter-connected short stories about the mysterious Man in Grey's adventures in tracking down Royalist criminals for the Government. Set in Napoleonic France in 1809, the west of the country is being terrorised by a group of reckless criminals known as "Chouans" (Screech Owls) because they inflict terror by night and go to ground