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Welcome to the gang Matthew. Have an Amazon link -http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fifty-Other-S...
Edit to add, I quite fancy giving that a go!
Love the book cover Matthew! The blurb is very tempting!
I know - he could twist my arm Sarah - must get the Salmagundi finished though, before I read anything else.
I weakened - I nabbed it!
I'm glad you both think the blurb is good!It's funny, someone claiming to be a successful author on another forum told me that my cover looked extremely amateur, and screamed self-published, but I guess taste is pretty subjective! I was thinking of commissioning a new professional cover actually...
I'm from N.I and studied in Dundee too :o) I never went back after uni though and I am now in Aberdeen.If I can wheedle my TBR down a bit I might even get round to reading your book this century.
Jud there are plenty from NI who went through Dundee! The first three people I talked to when I arrived for fresher's week were from NI, which was a little surreal to say the least!My book is a fairly short read, and as it's a collection of stories it can be read in chunks when you don't feel like starting into a new book, or delving into something deeper. That's how I read short stories anyway!
Hope you enjoy it.
That's true, I think half the student population there was from NI and 3/4 of the medics
It's quite short - I read it on the bus to and from town today - but it's a winding and tortuous journey! Very nice collection - I shall review later today when I've made a cake (first things first!)
do you mean your bus journey is tortuous or my book is?
The bus, you daft lad!
Phew.... I know it's inevitable, but I've not had a bad review yet, and when I saw that my heart stopped!
Our Ignite will have meant tortuous in a good way if it was about your book Matthew!
I gave in to temptation! My son studied at Dundee Uni. as well Matthew- Forensic and behavioural psychology. Small world eh!
Philip (sarah) wrote: "I gave in to temptation! My son studied at Dundee Uni. as well Matthew- Forensic and behavioural psychology. Small world eh!"Small country!
Philip (sarah) wrote: "I gave in to temptation! My son studied at Dundee Uni. as well Matthew- Forensic and behavioural psychology. Small world eh!"How long ago was that Sarah? I was in the forensic department too (although officially it's now called CAHID - Centre for Anatomy and Human IDentification)
here's the blurb from amazon:
Fifty/Fifty and Other Stories is a collection of eleven outstanding short stories by Northern Irish author Matthew W. McFarland.
In 'Fifty/Fifty', a policeman is called out to an attempted suicide on the iconic Forth Rail Bridge. His previous experience with 'jumpers' has led to one death and one life saved - his current record is fifty/fifty, but all that is about to change.
In 'Defenestration', a man is thrown from the twelfth storey of a building in mysterious circumstances. As he falls towards almost certain death, he contemplates his fate, killer whales, flying cats, and the untapped potential of the human mind.
In 'The Burning Bar', a man enters a burning building to rescue the love of his life, and becomes trapped, as the whole place collapses around him. Will he manage to escape before it is too late?
'What Have You Done?' deals with the legacy of the conflict in Northern Ireland, as a civil servant comes face to face with an ex-terrorist, leading him to discover how the previous generation coped with living through the worst of the Troubles.
These, and seven other stories, touching on sport, fatherhood, arachnophobia, faith, and cannibalism, make up an exciting collection of short fiction which will leave readers wanting more.