Sometimes you feel in need of a little something. Nothing very much, just a snack. Maybe you simply don't have time for that 500-page epic novel everyone's raving about, or that three-volume Scandi-noir just out. But you do feel in need of a little entertainment, something to beguile a few minutes while you put your feet up with a cuppa, or to occupy that all-too-familiar train journey to work. A good story in which you can lose yourself for a short while.
This could be the volume for you. Sixteen short stories of all kinds, something for all tastes. Linger in the countryside, for Rosehip Summer, a reminder of childhood, or head for the city in Spin-off Merchandise and Voyeur. Play the lottery in The Future's History, stroll onto the tennis courts in A Summer's Dreaming. There's more than one meal on offer: a completely unhealthy indulgence in the title story In Search of the Last Beefburger and something more refined in Ravenous for Revenge, though beware - the meal in the latter is not for the faint-hearted. There's a hint of sadness in Letter Written in Sunshine and Holy Day but plenty of stories to leave you grinning too - the title story, Natural Freak, The Future's History, Ravenous for Revenge ...
And much more. So when you make that cup of tea or coffee, settle into your cosy armchair and make one of these stories your treat for the day. Or devour one on your train/tram/bus journey to work with your latte or cappuccino. Or even take two ...
Go on, they won't make you fat!
41,000 words
This could be the volume for you. Sixteen short stories of all kinds, something for all tastes. Linger in the countryside, for Rosehip Summer, a reminder of childhood, or head for the city in Spin-off Merchandise and Voyeur. Play the lottery in The Future's History, stroll onto the tennis courts in A Summer's Dreaming. There's more than one meal on offer: a completely unhealthy indulgence in the title story In Search of the Last Beefburger and something more refined in Ravenous for Revenge, though beware - the meal in the latter is not for the faint-hearted. There's a hint of sadness in Letter Written in Sunshine and Holy Day but plenty of stories to leave you grinning too - the title story, Natural Freak, The Future's History, Ravenous for Revenge ...
And much more. So when you make that cup of tea or coffee, settle into your cosy armchair and make one of these stories your treat for the day. Or devour one on your train/tram/bus journey to work with your latte or cappuccino. Or even take two ...
Go on, they won't make you fat!
41,000 words
Used availability for Roz Southey's The Last Beefburger