The recent rediscovery of a collection of short stories by Commonwealth writers first published in 1971 has given rise to many pertinent thoughts about the literature and the significance of the selection highlighted at that time. What was and is the state of British and Commonwealth writing? Those pieces of short fiction represent a meaningful sample of that historical time period and allow a useful comparison with where it has gone since then.
Commonwealth Short Stories (1971) published by Edward Arnold in London is edited by Anna Rutherford,
