Wrapped Town and Other Stories - Softcover

Horne, Jules

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0993435432 ISBN 13: 9780993435430

Publisher: Texthouse, 2016

Synopsis

Fans of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter will love these wonderfully dark, wise and witty stories by award-winning Scottish writer Jules Horne.

"a dazzling storyteller" Simon & Schuster

"immensely talented and truly original" Vintage Books

An artist wraps a town in a canopy of blue, Dolly the sheep is anointed by angels, an old horse splits apart, a girl tackles the scrum of Scottish country dancing…

Prize-winners from the Macallan Short Story Competition, Fish Prize, Story Cellar, BBC Radio, and previously unpublished stories, including:

Small Blue Thing

Agnus Dei

Bill McLaren Was My PE Teacher

Pawkie Paiterson’s Auld Grey Yaud

Wrapped Town

Life Kit #1

www.juleshorne.com

About this title

About the Author

Jules Horne is an award-winning Scottish writer of chilling Gothic tales with a stubborn vein of dark humour. She loves the writing of Angela Carter, Mervyn Peake, Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury and Patrick Suskind, and referencing them in her biog. Her "funny, muddy" plays have been performed outdoors during the Edinburgh Festival, won Fringe First awards and appeared on BBC radio. She's an ex-BBC journalist and teaches for the Open University, when she's not writing books that might appeal to fans of Ray Bradbury, Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood. She lives in the blurred national boundary land of the Scottish Borders - home of ballads, the supernatural and Scottish Gothic stories like these. She also speaks good German and bad French, and plays the low whistle.

Edition details

• Publisher: Texthouse
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0993435432
• ISBN 13: 9780993435430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270