Unstable compounds : Bowen's Beckettian affinities / Sinéad Mooney -- 'How to measure this unaccountable darkness between the trees' : the strange relation of style and meaning in The last September / Susan Osborn -- Dead letters and living things : historical ethics in The house in Paris and The death of the heart / Eluned Summers-Bremner -- Mumbo-jumbo : the haunted world of The little girls / Jane Sturrock -- 'She-ward bound' : Elizabeth Bowen as a sensationalist writer / Shannon Wells-Lassagne -- Territory, space, modernity : Elizabeth Bowen's The demon lover and other stories and wartime London / Shafquat Towheed -- Narrative, meaning and agency in The heat of the day / Brook Miller, with Luke Elward, Tessa Hempel and Philip Kollar.