Novella in Flash

Named author novella in flash.

Spin of the Triangle : Stephanie Carty

Spin of the Triangle tackles an important and difficult subject in a very skilful way. We are introduced to the different women who take part in a baby-trafficking business. They are all vulnerable and have lived lives where they have been exploited in many different ways. Stephanie Carty shows the characters in the novella convincingly occupying each of the three roles in the victim, persecutor and rescuer triangle at different times. In the end, we see that it may be possible for them to step out of moving around this triangle and have a different life. I was impressed by the individual stories in different POVs. All aspects of the baby-trafficking business are covered, from the young girls manipulated to give up their babies, the grief of those who regret their choices, the office manager deadening her feelings with alcohol, the lies told about the babies’ origins. And in the background, the men who control it all.
— Jude Higgins, judge of the 2025 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. Author of Clearly Defined Clouds.

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-74-2; 133mm x 203mm; 76pp

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The Lives of the Dead : Fiona McKay

The Lives of the Dead is a timeless and poignant novella that tracks one woman’s journey through the dark wood of marriage and motherhood. Told through a cleverly woven narrative that includes internet searches and reimagined fairy tales with a feminist twist, this deeply resonant and compelling story explores the agency afforded to women through themes of power, expectation and sacrifice. Skilfully crafted with language that radiates heart and yearning, Fiona McKay proves an incomparable and essential voice in fiction.
— Sara Hills, author of The Evolution of Birds (Best Short Story Collection, Saboteur Awards, 2022)

Newly married Kate is in an unequal relationship. Her husband holds a firm grip on their future, his hand literally holding tight on her wrist, causing small bruise marks – a motif through the novella. The interior focus shows Kate’s sometimes guilty struggles about motherhood and competing desires very well. The author has structured the novella brilliantly with Kate’s journey to self-realisation interspersed with re-visioned fairy tales. The fairy tales offer great depth to how the story unfolds and invite many reads to get their full impact.
— Jude Higgins, Judge Bath Novella in Flash Competition 2025

Kate lives a constrained life with her husband, John. Tracking the beginnings of their marriage and her initiation into motherhood, the text is interspersed with exquisite fairy tale re-tellings, which amplify and illuminate the ‘everyday’ story. The prose is lush and lyrical, Kate’s emotional landscape expertly rendered. An exemplary novella-in-flash from Fiona McKay, showcasing what can be achieved in the genre.
— Gearóidín Nic Cárthaigh, author of Geansaithe Móra (An Post Irish Language Fiction Book of the Year, 2024)

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-72-8; 133mm x 203mm; 116pp

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In the Dark Eyes of the Rabbit : Debra A Daniel

Debra Daniel perfectly captures what it is like to be a twelve-year-old girl in a particular place and time, while also touching upon the universality of that precious age between childhood and teenager. Interspersed throughout In the Dark Eyes of the Rabbit is advice on how to live from Retta’s mother, father, and grandmother, bringing to mind Jamaica Kencaid’s “Girl.” But it is Retta herself whose voice rings loudest as she is “lost to the wonderment of life and love and dying and secrets and truths and how people sink and how they float…”
— Ann Hood, NY Times Best Selling Author of The Stolen Child and The Book that Matters Most

“Debra Daniel has a rare knack for combining depth and humour, substance and charm. In the Dark Eyes of the Rabbit is at once a tender depiction of the dynamics of a family, a vivid coming-of-age narrative, an unforgettable portrayal of a grandmother, and an astute study of fracture and repair within relationships. It’s warm and funny and poignant — I immediately wanted to read it again.”
— Michael Loveday author of Unlocking the Novella-in-Flash and Three Men on the Edge

“I loved this novella-in-flash on many levels. I liked its close focus on the life of a family in the USA in the 1960s and how they navigate day-to-day situations. I liked the POV, in the strong and believable voice of a twelve year old girl and the way she thinks about her family and relates to them. The adults are flawed but believable — a fearful grandmother who makes doom-laden remarks and has many strange habits, a self-preoccupied mother, a father who spends much time away from the home and an aunt who reveals family secrets. The novella is moving, and also has humour — a great combination. The use of the rabbit motif threading through, adds a further depth. In the end, the family, in crisis, does pull together.”
— Jude Higgins, author of Clearly Defined Clouds and founder of the Bath Novella-in-Flash Award

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-70-4; 133mm x 203mm; 132pp

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Nose Ornaments : Sudha Balagopal

When Sudha Balagopal describes food, you get hungry. When she describes sadness, you feel tears in your own heart. And so it is with Nose Ornaments, this finely crafted family saga of Lakshmi, and her daughter, Savi, and Savi’s daughter, Mini. Spanning years and geographies and cultures, we see how each woman lives in her particular time. So much changes in terms of men and marriage and work life. It’s a testament to how women adapt and blossom. But even more than that, it is the exquisite detail of Balagopal’s writing which is so precise and sensory, you may very well feel that you are not just reading this beautiful story, but living it as well.
— Francine Witte, author of RADIO WATER and The Way of the Wind

Sudha Balagopal’s Nose Ornaments spans three generations of strong women who don’t succumb to their circumstances, who make decisions, and who have the agency to turn unfavorable situations into opportunities. These are women who seek, women who resolve, women who guide. Throughout the story, Sudha, with her skill and sensitivity, examines the delicate relationships between mothers and daughters that, despite love, are fraught with complexities and misunderstandings. It is an emotional ride filled with hope and sensory details. Not to be missed.
—Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar, Author of Morsels of Purple and Skin Over Milk

Sudha Balagopal takes us on a journey spanning three generations and two continents, dealing love, heartache, tradition, and surprise in supercharged miniature doses. Each story in this novella pops with poignancy, with beauty, and with profundity. I loved reading this book and want to read it again.
—Michael Czyzniejewski, author of The Amnesiac in the Maze: Stories

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-62-9; 133mm x 203mm; 94pp

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Marilyn’s Ghost : Jo Withers

A reporter who sees her as nothing but a meal ticket
A rookie cop dazzled by her fame
A seasoned police inspector who’d seen it all before
A man’s voice on the phone
Pills and champagne on the nightstand
Photographs from a disconnected life
Stories from the death scene of Marilyn Monroe – daughter, wife, starlet, legend, ghost…

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-58-2; 133mm x 203mm; 60pp

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Hereafter : Sarah Freligh

Hereafter is a gorgeous and devastating triumph. This award-winning novella follows Pattylee’s journey from early motherhood through the fog of bereavement after she loses her teenage son to brain cancer. Infused with surprising imagery and textured, poetic language, Sarah Freligh guides us through the oft-fractured landscape of grief and memory, time and hope. This is prose that sparks with remarkable depth and emotional honesty. In her signature micro-style, Freligh delivers a true masterclass of the novella-in-flash form.
— Sara Hills, author of The Evolution of Birds

Sarah Freligh is a foremost voice, if not the foremost voice, in the world of micros – those deceptively small stories that explode beyond their word counts. Her ability to squeeze an entire universe into a story the size of a hand is on full and glorious display in Hereafter where Freligh has micro’d her way into perfection. This is a poignant novella, with Freligh’s signature working class protagonist, in this case Pattylee, whose world is a quiet tornado of grief. Written in that blend of accessibility and exquisitely shaped poetic imagery that is so present in all her writing, Sarah Freligh’s Hereafter will tear you up from the inside-out. And then you will want to read it once more to feel the ache all over again.
— Francine Witte, author of RADIO WATER and The Way of the Wind

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-60-5; 133mm x 203mm; 60pp

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A Learning Curve : Jan Kaneen

A Learning Curve‚ is profoundly moving and one of the best novellas-in-flash I have read. Kaneen explores the psyche and emotion of someone going through what some might see as everyday pain that many people might experience. However, the compassion of the writing allows readers to understand how extraordinary the lives we all live, are. She finds that which is human and moving and universal and gives it voice. This is an exceptional book.
~ John Brantingham, Inaugural Poet Laureate of Sequoia and Kings Canyon and former Professor of English at Mt. San Antonio College.

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-48-3; 133mm x 203mm; 112pp

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The Top Road : Fiona McKay

Fiona McKay’s debut novella-in-flash, the stunning, seductive, and gut-wrenching The Top Road, combines the lyricism of literary fiction with the palpable tension and propulsive force of a crime thriller…Written in immaculate, exquisite prose, delving deeply into themes of friendship, family, grief, and guilt, McKay’s debut is not just an extraordinary piece of fiction writing; it is utterly unputdownable…
– Kristen Loesch, author of The Porcelain Doll

Fiona McKay draws us into the consciousness of a small boy… People can underestimate the intelligence and sensitivity of children, and these stories can become overly sentimental. Not so here. The writer understands what it is to be a child in a way that Dylan Thomas and Charles Bukowski did. She also draws us into the consciousness of a fox… In the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s Flush, she uses the perspective to complicate our understanding of the story…
– John Brantingham, Judge Bath Novella-in-Flash Competition 2023

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-46-9; 133mm x 203mm; 108pp

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Prodigal : Anna M Wang

“Prodigal uses the form to its full advantage. The author of this novella-in-flash understands the iceberg theory (that what we see in a brief scene can suggest a much fuller and complex reality) in a way that few writers do. The writing suggests the years of struggles it takes to become a woman, both the good and the bad. We are given insights into the small details of eating disorders and painful relationships. We understand what it means to grow and the difference between adulthood and adolescence through the small moments – what a haiku writer might call the moments between moments.”
~ John Brantingham, writer, teacher, editor and judge of the 2023 Bath Novella and Flash Award

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-42-1; 133mm x 203mm; 126pp

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The Twisted Wheel : David Swann

April, 1979. Three women, striving to flourish under the shadow of the moor…

In her troubled youth, Barbara hitch-hiked over the hills to legendary Northern Soul clubs, where wild nights of dancing allowed her to swirl away, free from herself. Now, years on, she’s stuck in hospital, secretly relieved to have found a place safe from the Yorkshire Ripper’s murderous rampage.

But Barbara’s 13-year-old daughter, Shell, defies the fear that has gripped their valley. As free-spirited as her mother was, she’s keeping tabs on all the shady blokes in her town who could be the Ripper…

Meanwhile Mrs Trivet, the fierce family matriarch, goes on driving a battered pie van over the hills, offering lifts to the hitch-hikers who remind her of her daughter: lonely misfits, workless strangers, teenage vagrants…

‘A novella that opens with lines by Halldor Laxness and a simple idea: a dandelion striving to live. And that is the intricate charm of this story: inside the mythical and dark structure is the simple idea of how to live. It’s a story of ‘soft things in hard places’.’
– Michelle Elvy, author of the everrumble.

‘The funny and surreal collide so perfectly in David Swann’s work. If you haven’t read any of his flash, you’re in for a treat. I’m jealous of you.’
– Jonathan Cardew, Connotation Press.

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-34-6; 133mm x 203mm; 160pp

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Essence : Christopher M Drew

‘Essence unpeels a set of characters through quiet, precise details to reveal what lies beneath. It’s a rich exploration of cause, effect and connection that is unflinching and beautiful at the same time.’
—Stephanie Carty, author of The Peculiarities of Yearning

‘Essence stands out for its structure and control. I admire the way it plays with the meaning, through its subsections, of the phases in the characters’ lives, and the way it shifts reader focus and expectations. This novella demands patience, in all the right ways.
—Michelle Elvy, author of the other side of better

‘Chris Drew’s beautifully distilled prose leaves no room for distraction or false impression. He writes simply, with clarity, and truly to the heart of each piece. Each flash is a cross section of the human condition, a tap on the heart. All told with a simplicity that reads easy but lingers.’
—Peter Jordan, author of Calls to Distant Places

‘In Essence, Drew makes the most of the possibilities offered by the novella-in-flash form: one story, a shared history, that fans out to reveal the individual struggles and triumphs of six siblings. A tale of breaking and recovering, soaring and falling, Essence contains a perfect balance of complexity and simplicity. Each reader will take something different from this ultimately uplifting book.’
—Johanna Robinson, author of Homing

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-36-0; 133mm x 203mm; 70pp

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Summer 1969 : Sheree Shatsky

A novella that weaves in and out of a family life, and the events of the day, some dramatic (fires and space exploration), some mundane (a mother’s habitual pulling at her eyelashes, a father’s obsession with a cat). Slowly, the writer builds expectations around what’s in store; there’s NASA and the Florida beach and the moon shot and the war in Vietnam.
~ Michelle Elvy, author of the everrumble and the other side of better.

The twenty-nine interlinked stories in Sheree Shatsky’s Summer 1969 locate the reader in a place and time that’s both poignant and powerful. The events of that summer – the Manson murders, the first moon landing and Vietnam – are background accompaniment for the characters as they move through their daily lives: the slowly unraveling father, the spendthrift mother and a neighbor girl named Jane who’s sent away to juvenile detention after torching the family home. At the heart of these stories is the narrator, the daughter on whom nothing is lost, an insightful witness to the beginnings and the ends of things. Each of these stories feels like an exquisitely detailed jewel, assembled to form this powerful crown of a novella.
~ Sarah Freligh, author of We and Sad Math

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-38-4; 133mm x 203mm; 58pp

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It Felt Like Everything : K.S. Dyal

“It Felt Like Everything is as tender as a new bruise. This heartfelt novella-in-flash is told through the perspectives of teenagers Kate and Marin, who are on the cusp of becoming—confronting desire, anxiety and loneliness—in an emotional journey that’s acutely felt and courageously navigated. Each narrator is rendered distinctly real and vulnerable; each emotion held just under the skin and ready to spark. K.S. Dyal’s flawless prose overflows with surprising turns of phrase and a keen observation of human behavior that inspires us to ask not only how we view each other, but also how we view ourselves.”
— Sara Hills, author of The Evolution of Birds

“K.S. Dyal’s stunning novella-in-flash, It Felt Like Everything, is a gorgeous exploration. Divided into two distinct parts, this book delves into the lives of teenagers Kate and Marin, their stories separate, yet intersecting. With sinuous language, the author imbues the mundane with magic, making the young characters’ lives sparkle and glow. K.S. Dyal has the marvelous ability to make tiny actions explode into defining moments. This book is about hair dye and party pills, about flip phones and Shakespeare, about ignited feelings and yearning, about confusion and discovery, and, ultimately, about love. What’s particularly remarkable about this novella-in-flash is the intricate, detailed set of illustrations by the talented author that punctuate the text like so many gems. This is a book that will be treasured by the reader.”
— Sudha Balagopal, author of Things I Can’t Tell Amma

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-26-1; 133mm x 203mm; 88pp

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Gull Shit Alley and Other Roads to Hell : Jupiter Jones

Danny expected to escape his shabby seaside hometown, but things go awry when Grandpa’s dementia worsens, and Danny must leave school and fend for himself. He develops a crush on the indifferent and elusive Gryff who, riffing on Dante’s Inferno, offers to guide him through the petty corruption and exploitation that underpin the town’s tourist trade. Danny begins working for brothers Earl and Rex Silverman who are involved in a dispute with rival business owner, Hector Quinn. This escalates in a series of tit-for-tat arson attacks – with Danny and Gryff on opposing sides.

‘This story explores a town and its people, both “perpetually in the process of re-invention”. It’s a jaunty roller-coaster ride, taking the reader through young Danny’s world as he gets lost and found and lost again. There’s pleasure and pain, guilt (some of it, inevitably, Catholic) and more guilt. Anti-heroes and superheroes, too. There are layers of this world, peeled back so we can see – and touch, hear, smell, too (sometimes it’s a dirty world). The writer has a sense of the sensual, in the grittiest manner. And it’s about longing, too – and the burn of temptation.’
~ Michelle Elvy, author of the everrumble and the other side of better

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-28-5; 133mm x 203mm; 122pp

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Pixie Lore : Jeanette Lowe

A woman and her partner strive to come to terms with loss. A succession of miscarriages pushes their relationship to breaking point, and they become immersed in the rhythms of both the natural world and the imagined world in order to try and make sense of the apparent randomness of life’s events.

A quiet story about loss and enduring hope, and it manages the themes with an easy touch.
~ Michelle Elvy, Bath Novella-in-Flash Award 2022 Judge/

A powerful, beautifully written novella-in-flash about a childless couple’s shared suffering and journey towards survival.
~ Tim Robinson, author of The Orphans of Hatham Hall, Northside Press

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-22-3; 133mm x 203mm; 78pp

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The Clothes Make the Man : Finnian Burnett

Arthur, a sensitive soul, navigates his life in academia with wit and insight that belies his own self-doubt. Told through a series of flash stories, Arthur’s search for love and acceptance means setting boundaries with his controlling mother, battling gender dysphoria, and struggling to overcome his biggest challenge – internalized hatred of his own fat, female body.

“In a series of fragmented moments that cut close to the heart, this bold yet tender novella explores Arthur’s journey of self-identity, from female to male, as he negotiates parental and societal expectations in the search for acceptance and freedom. Finnian Burnett’s confident, unflinching prose shines on the page, with characters hewn so sure and sharp we can sense the edge of a knife blade. This novella is hugely relatable and inexplicably moving, always bending towards hope. The Clothes Make the Man feels like a homecoming.”
Sara Hills, author of The Evolution of Birds

“This is a story that examines external and internal truths: how people see an individual, and how the individual explores the Self. It’s also worth noting the novella’s title here – fitting in the way it is declarative, yet drawing the reader’s attention to questions around the outer wrapping and what lies beneath.”
Michelle Elvy, Bath Novella-in-Flash Award 2022 Judge

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-18-6; 133mm x 203mm; 58pp

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Lessons at the Water’s Edge : Caroline Greene

For one young woman, a new city, a new family, a new start. But for the family, the newcomer brings her own changes. Will the language lessons, weaving through their lives, help them truly connect?

‘This novella captivated me from the start, with the suggestion of unreliable memory. From there, a natural rhythm develops, with stories flowing like water. The world we enter is a world of new experiences, new people – an education… the storylines glide, skim, sometimes sink below the surface and then emerge again. It is a sure hand that writes this novella-in-flash, and the dreamlike quality of the writing floats from page to page.’
~ Michelle Elvy, author of the everrumble and the other side of better.

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-16-2; 133mm x 203mm; 74pp

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Margot and the Strange Objects : Robin Thomas

Margot has been left a peculiar collection of ‘strange objects’ by her aunt and is on a quest to find out something about them. Helping or hindering her or engaged on some other project entirely are: two men with a burden called Nimrod, a group of children in search of sardines and ice-cream, a taciturn man with a mysterious hat, a schoolboy who’s good at asking questions, a small dinosaur, a brace of giraffes, an August Personage, George the Oak Tree (a Portuguese-speaking arboreal author), a talking building, a camel, an interfering author and Nobody. On the way through their various journeys the characters wade through difficulties sensible, silly, philosophical, practical, linguistical and scientifically really important, until …

“Bath-o-pulsars, dinosaur training grounds, an oak tree (called George) that writes books – in the most glorious way possible, Margot and the Strange Objects is absolutely bonkers, as though Robin Thomas is channeling the spirits of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear into the novella-in-flash form. Thomas has published several well-received volumes of poetry, and his first work of fiction announces a brand new voice, capable of skipping between the profound and the playful in one sentence. This book brims over with energy, ingenuity and absurdity.”
~ Michael Loveday, author of Three Men On The Edge, V.Press

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-04-9; 133mm x 203mm; 118pp

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The Last Days of The Union : David Rhymes

Very few writers would dare to attempt what David Rhymes does here, let alone deliver something so authentic, convincing and real. The Last Days of the Union is a deep-dive into the Soviet Union of the late 1980s, and in particular a fascinating re-imagining of one strange, now-neglected event and all the circumstances that surrounded it. As a work of historical fiction, it depicts with breathtaking nuance and skill a time of instability, risk and political change. The multiple perspectives of the ensemble cast interlock like a sophisticated jigsaw puzzle. And at the centre lies the enigma of the young pilot Mathias Rust, whose rogue actions and motives were probably a mystery even to himself.

~ Michael Loveday, author of Three Men on the Edge

The Last Days of the Union is a cinematic cold war adventure, wrapped in a political thriller with the investigative flair of new journalism, and the vivid economy of flash. David Rhymes skilfully juxtaposes international politics with the minutiae of everyday life, with protocol, toothbrushes, snowdrops, and pickles to tell the story of a reckless dreamer, who briefly and bizarrely landed on the world’s stage.

~ Jupiter Jones, author of The Death and Life of Mrs Parker

Like the real-life plane flight that sparked off this novella, The Last Days of the Union cleverly circles around the momentous event of a teenage pilot landing in Moscow Red Square in 1980s. In wonderfully vivid and concise prose David Rhymes fictionalises the impact of the journey on the lives of many individuals involved. A brilliant read.
~ Jude Higgins, author of The Chemist’s House

Paperback ISBN 978-1-915247-02-5; 133mm x 203mm; 122pp

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Season of Bright Sorrow : David Swann

After her father is jailed for murder, a young girl is re-housed with her mother in a crumbling resort. There are terrors here: tides and quick-sands, also a strange boy who wanders the marsh. But when the girl meets an elderly beachcomber who has known heartaches of his own, she senses that her fortunes could turn like the tide. The tide that rushes in faster than a horse, bringing life – and sometimes taking it…

Illustrated by Sam Hubbard

‘This collection stands out for the rhythmic storytelling and the variety the reader encounters in these small fictions – told in fragments, in lists, in long breathless sentences, in repetitions, in sharp and believable dialogue. There is great care here, and yet the stories spill from the page seamlessly… A superbly designed set of stories, from beginning to end.’
~ Michelle Elvy, Judge, 2021 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award.

‘Season of Bright Sorrow is a little miracle. David Swann takes a boarding house, a boy, and a bay; a girl and her mum; a scattering of glimpses and gaps; and he gives you nothing less than the universe. There’s warmth and wisdom, here. Heartbreak, profundity, and humour. And beautiful drawings, too, by Sam Hubbard. It’s a short book, and it’s absolutely full to the brim with love.’
~ Edward Hogan, author of The Electric (John Murray, 2020).

‘Season of Bright Sorrow is by turns dark and foreboding, life affirming and hopeful. Each flash fiction is unique and haunting, and together they reveal our human urge for connection and certainty. Swann’s characters possess you instantly and we cannot help but enter fully into each strange and beautiful life.’
~ Karen Stevens, author of Writing a First Novel (Palgrave, 2014).

‘In a series of poetically precise and illuminating flashes, this novella explores how one girl, Lana, begins to learn how to live in a world full of loss. David Swann finds a specific language for a specific landscape, and, in doing so, connects with universal themes of grief and hope. It’s beautiful. And it’s funny, too.’
~ Bethan Roberts, author of My Policeman (Vintage, 2012).

‘Dave Swann’s portrayal of childhood brims over with wisdom, warmth and wonder. The coastal settings are so achingly desolate, the characterisations so astute, idiosyncratic and compassionate throughout. Season of Bright Sorrow feels note-perfect and yet it’s full of wildness and wilderness. There is an unforgettable magic at work.’
~ Michael Loveday, author of Three Men on the Edge (V Press, 2018).

Paperback ISBN 978-1-912095-29-2; 133mm x 203mm; 122pp

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