A friend of mine pointed out that if you want to read some really good short stories then those by Rudyard Kipling are worth further invest...

The final story in this collection ends again showing just how clever Kipling is at laying down a twist, which catches you out at the end. T...

Again the voices you hear are those of a collection of inanimate objects and animals. This is a clever story not just about mans fight with ...

This collection of stories is almost completed and again there is a tale that has a hint of the dark night of the soul about it as an obsess...

There is a clever shift in focus here away from what you expect to be the centre of attention. It is an interesting idea to take the theme o...

Although Kipling comes for some stick for writing a great deal about the old Empire days you could hardly accuse him of glamming it up with ...

The blurb on the back cover says that this story is Kipling’s most well known and in a way it reminds you in style of The Ship that Found He...

If Kipling is not writing about soldiers then he seems to pick up on a nautical theme and so both of the next stories are based on or around...

What you start to appreciate after reading a few of these stories is that Kipling is as capable as Kafka and Pushkin of using a few pages to...

Away from soliders patroling remote areas of the Empire the stories take a different tone and in the case of the one consumed today become s...

The voice in the story moves from Irish to Yorkshire and again a solider on duty trawls though his memories to produce a tale that is used t...

Rudyard Kipling ’s problem is that he is associated with The Empire and a period of British history that is now seen as one of imperial rac...