This volume contains the short stories and poems from What Do you Think Yourself?, published in 1982, and A Girl Must Live, published in 1990.
From What Do You Think Yourself? they are: Orkney Story; The Black Jacket; The Sea Horse; The Hill Modipe; The Red Fellows; The Warning; Call Me; The Return; What Do You Think Yourself?; Social Readjustment; Should We Believe Postie?; Interview; and Remember Me.
From A Girl must Live they are: A Girl Must Live; Nagli's First Princess; Endangered Species; Out of the West; The Son's Story; Telling to the Master; Nobody likes a Refugee; The Money They Must Have Spent; Death of a Peculiar Boar; If A Thing Can Be Done Once; A Little Old Lady; A Matter of Behaviour; Thirty Pieces; The Child Jason is brought to Chiron; Valley of the Kings; Siren Night; London Burning; Comfort; The Talking Oats; Buganda History; Absence of Indians; Mary and Joe; Take-over; Far from Millicentral Station; Miss Omega Raven; The Factory; Like It Was; After the Accident; Out of the Deeps; The Valley of Bushes; Somewhere Else; Conversation with an Improbable Future; What Kind of Lesson?; One Couldn't Tell the Papers; and Rat-World.

Naomi Mitchison [1897-1999] was a literary phenomenon.
Tireless in her writing, unafraid and often highly unconventional in her opinions, she left an extraordinary legacy.
Her novels for adults and children - based on the classical ancient world, and on the immediately contemporary - stressed at different times her deep interest in Scottish and African societies, as well her concerns for the future.
She also wrote poetry and plays, memoirs, a war diary, book reviews, political articles, and many letters.