Brooke Fieldhouse: More Stories about Buildings & People, Gebunden

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These fifteen short stories from Brooke Fieldhouse include six old favourites: the Warner Group prizewinning love story THE GIFT , the liquid nightmare of DROWNING BY NUMBERS and the petrifying tale of immuration RAW CONCRETE.

The collection is in three parts: Love, Fear, and Love & Fear, and each story is headed with a colour image taken from original collages by the author.

The nine previously unpublished pieces range from the bone chilling THE LILYWHITE BOY , through the heartbreaking story of Deidre's attempt to achieve immortality by RUNNING WITH THE BULLS , the mysteriously philosophical MINDFULNESS COMPASSION & THE SECOND SEX , to the metaphysical surreal adult fairy tale THERE ISN'T AN OUNCE OF MALICE IN A MOOSE . The group also includes the reconciliatory IN PLAIN SIGHT which was shortlisted for the 2019 Fiction Factory Prize, and the mischievously morbid care home fable A PERFECT LIKENESS which was long-listed for the 2020 Fiction Factory Prize.

Fieldhouse dedicates the book to his late parents and elaborates with a brief, thoroughly unsentimental and notably misery-free memoir and a haunting Afterword.