Our first Author of the Month for 2023 is the New Zealand-born short story writer Katherine Mansfield.

The themes of her work, exploring sexuality, anxiety and existentialism, were as controversial as her life, in which she changed country several times and took many lovers of both sexes. She died of tuberculosis in 1923, leaving much of her work unpublished. Subsequently collated and edited by John Middleton Murry, it has come to be regarded as a landmark in the development of modernism in English.

 Selected by the Bookshop