Barbara Gates draws on Emily Shore's last journal (written while she was dying of tuberculosis) to offer insights into Victorian illness narratives

Robert Hemmings examines Siegfried Sassoon's retrospective accounts of his relationship with his therapist, arguing that their idealised surface is disrupted by fissures of pain, pain which is also evident in his diaries

Gennady Barabtarlo provides the "sequel" to Nabokov's factually-based short story "The Assistant Producer", using letters written by during imprisonment and interrogation by the  N.K.V.D.  In so doing, he revisits Nabokov's query of whether life can plagiarise literature