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Chris Bell

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in Holyhead, The United Kingdom

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Fiction, Short Story, Fantasy

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Chris Bell

The author was born in Wales in 1960. In 1976 he was the youngest poet ever to be published in former Poetry Society chairman Norman Hidden’s magazine Workshop New Poetry (UK). In January 2006 his poem about the writer Richard Brautigan, ‘The Graves Have Turned to Powdered Wind’, won the Edit Red Writers Choice Award. His poetry has been published in Axiom (Wales); Scree (England); Sivullinen (Finland); foam:e and Snorkel (Australia).

His fiction has appeared in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror (Tenth Annual Edition) (US), in which his short story collection The Bumper Book of Lies received an honourable mention; The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #21; and This Is The Summer of Love (New Writers Special) (UK); Not One of Us (US); ...more

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	Redfox, Book II: The Demon Queen by Chris Bell (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (introduction) 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1988	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liquidambar by Chris Bell (Goodreads Author), Elisa Bowman (Illustrator) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Songshifting 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Concentrated Essence of Any Number of Ravens by Chris Bell (Goodreads Author), Chad Taylor (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memories of Manzi's it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shem-el-Nessim: An Inspiration In Perfume 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Port After Stormy Seas it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Detox Mansion it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Songshifting, the complete trilogy - paperback out now

This morning I pressed publish on the paperback edition of my Songshifting trilogy. The Kindle e-book is available to pre-order on Amazon and goes on sale tomorrow (15 July). The paperback has more than 800 pages and is available from CreateSpace, and soon from the Amazon websites. Help me spread the word - and in the meantime check out the Songshifting website.

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The Dylan Thomas Omnibus : Under Milk Wood', Poems, Stories and Broadcasts

by Dylan Thomas

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Granta 97: Best of Young American Novelists 2

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Charlie Parker: His Music and Life (The Michigan American Music Series)

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“If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist, and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant

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“In my view most authors do not write to reflect reality but to invent a second world with a complicated set of rules - the more complicated the better. Though this second world is derived from the first, it is somehow more meaningful, more satisfying than the real world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

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