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  • Cornish Short Stories

    A Collection of Contemporary Cornish Writing

    by Tim Hannigan, Tim Hannigan, Philipa Aldous, Cathy Galvin, Anastasia Gammon, Clare Howdle, Adrian Markle, Tim Martindale, Candy Neubert0, Sarah Perry1, S. Reid2, Alan Robinson3, Rob Magnuson Smith4, Katherine Stansfield5, Emma Staughton6, Sarah Thomas7, Tom Vowler8, Elaine Ruth White9 ...
    Ghosts walk in the open and infidelities are conducted in plain sight. Two teenagers walk along a perfect beach in the anticipation of a first kiss. Time stops for nothing – not even for death. Sometimes time cracks, disrupting a fragile equilibrium. The stories are peopled with locals and incomers, sailors and land dwellers; a diver searches the deep for what she has lost, and forbidden lovers ... Read more

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  • Ethnology

    a love song for Connemara

    by Cathy Galvin ...
    Ethnology draws on the mystical cry for the dead of Cathy Galvin's Irish-speaking ancestors. Within an epic narrative she reclaims place, people and language, creating a bridge between our own times and a Connemara community on the margins of Europe.Drawing on classic forms within literary and oral traditions, Ethnology becomes a love song for Connemara, witness to vivid encounters: between the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Book of Coventry

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Raef Boylan, Graham Joyce, Andrew Davies, Mez Packer, Andrea Mbarushimana, Cathy Galvin, Nick Walker, Tanya Pengelly, Nirmal Puwar, Nuzo Onoh,, Holly Watson,, David Court,, David Sue ...
    Series series Reading the City
    As German bombs rain down on the city during the Blitz, a teenage girl discovers she has unearthly abilities…A young woman by the name of Godiva finds herself being stalked by mysterious graffiti sprayed across the city…On his first shift, a tour bus guide decides to go off route, taking his only passenger along for the ride…Often overshadowed by its higher-profile Midlands neighbours, Coventry’s ... Read more

    $8.86 USD

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  • Thanks For Nothing

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  • The January Man

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  • Homework

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  • The Light in the Dark

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  • Best British Short Stories 2017

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