Extraordinary collection of short stories by writers at the top of their game, with each volume headlined by Vikram Seth. Mark Haddon, Geoff Dyer, Victoria Hislop, Sebastian Faulks, John Le CarrŽ, Xiaolu Guo, William Sutcliffe, Ali Smith, Lionel Shriver, Jeanette Winterson, Vikram Seth, David Park, Hari Kunzru, Zoe Heller, William Boyd, Michael Faber, Joanna Trollope, Giles Foden, Michael Morpurgo, Rose Tremain, Jonathan Coe, Marti Leimbach, Kate Atkinson, Ian Rankin, Marina Lewycka, Hanif Kureishi, Jonathan Buckley, Nicholas Shakespeare, Alexander McCall Smith, Helen Simpson, DBC Pierre, AL Kennedy, Kamila Shamsie, Beryl Bainbridge, Louise Welsh, Diran Adebayo, Helen Fielding. Published in 2009 in aid of Oxfam