false 1278661 1 Two Tall Tales and One Short Novel, is a collection of stories by three of the UK's brightest new writing talents: The Mesmerist's Daughter by Heidi James, Smokin' the Queen by Kay Sexton, and In the Clear by Lucy Fry. Together the stories transport the reader into the minds of three very different characters. The Mesmerist's Daughter, a fairytale minus the fairies, tells the story of an imaginative young girl, Nicola, who thinks her mother is a wolf. Stifled by her home environment and her mother's lies, Nicola's quest is literally to rediscover her own voice. In Smokin' the Queen, Darius, a damaged, black DJ, travels from his home in Brixton to the West of England. There he finds work and shelter, and manages to forget his troubles in the bewitching company of a local woman. As summer turns to autumn, however, his anxieties resurface, impelling him to take desperate action. Told with humour and verve, In the Clear explores an obsessional relationship whose breakdown sends its narrator into a spiral of depression. Her only chance of salvation is to reach out to the world, but to do so she must first escape the confines of her own self-consciousness. "Two Tall Tales and One Short Novel is inventive in language and exuberant in narrative. You'll be hard pressed to find such fantastic fictions in more mainstream, well-behaved publications." Russell Celyn Jones 1267649 10 7 2007 Two Tall Tales and One Short Novel: Anthology of Shorter Fiction total:8|5:5|4:2|3:1| 8 36 30 1 4 2 false false Wed Jul 11 05:04:54 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 12 14:40:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Tue Oct 20 17:37:53 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 17:37:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Oct 28 01:31:47 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 01:31:47 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Sep 23 14:47:46 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 14:47:49 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Aug 16 07:17:48 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 07:17:48 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Jun 30 12:31:05 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 12:31:05 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri Jun 27 07:44:58 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 07:44:58 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jun 24 23:09:25 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 23:09:29 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu May 01 09:05:02 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 09:05:02 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Mar 23 08:01:40 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 08:01:40 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun Mar 23 07:15:47 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 23 07:15:47 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Feb 28 10:07:07 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 10:07:19 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Feb 15 11:16:38 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 11:16:44 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Feb 13 12:06:42 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 12:06:42 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Feb 13 11:50:01 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 11:50:07 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Tue Dec 18 17:35:29 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 18 17:35:41 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Wed Nov 14 06:02:19 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 14 06:02:19 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Sun Oct 28 14:43:11 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 14:43:11 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Tue Oct 16 18:39:18 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 16 18:39:30 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Mon Oct 15 02:18:27 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 02:18:27 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1278661