He was selected by granta as one of the twenty best of young british novelists in 1993, and lives in norfolk, east anglia. This is the kind of book you want to read between tomes, much like the stories of alexander mccall smith. Notwithstanding, stories from an english village by louis. The novelist, 61, on keyboardinvading cats, thieving pigeons, not looking in mirrors and getting on badly with god. A funny and heartbreaking new book from one of britains favourite and bestselling writers. His most recent books are the dust that falls from dreams, birds without wings and a partisans daughter, a collection of stories, notwithstanding, and two collections of poetry, imagining alexandria and of love and desire. Andy bridge the inkshed cover illustration illustrator. At first i was a bit annoyed for the lack of translations of the sentences in different languages, but now that i look back, i think this added a good.
British short story collections singlewriter short story collections harvill secker books. Each chapter is about one of the characters in the village, and they are all charming. His most recent books are the dust that falls from dreams, birds without wings and a partisans daughter, a collection of stories, notwithstanding, and two collections of poetry, imagining alexandria and of love and. His most recent books are birds without wings and a partisans daughter, a collection of stories notwithstanding and a collection of poetry, imagining alexandria. The author has entwined memories of his own childhood village with fictional stories centred around particular characters. Notwithstanding vintage international paperback october. In an afterword to this collection of eccentric short stories or rather, short stories about eccentrics, for the stories. His most recent books are the dust that falls from dreams, birds without wings and a partisans daughter, a collection of stories, notwithstanding, and a collection of poetry, imagining alexandria. Almost every story could begin with once upon a time.
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