Short Stories

Review: Eleven Minutes by Megan Miranda

Published by Darren on February 3, 2012 | 1 Response

Fracture is told from Delaney’s perspective, and if you’ve read the first two chapters, you know that she falls through the ice in chapter one, and she wakes up 6 days later. And what happens in between—well, that’s Decker’s story. This is the story of those eleven minutes, and the six days that follow, from his perspective. Because while it must… Read more →

Review: Things we Didn’t See Coming by Steven Amsterdam

Published by Darren on August 25, 2011 | 4 Responses

This was a book I knew absolutely nothing about, when I spotted it on one of the tables in the bookshop at Salt’s Mill at the same time I bought Simon Van Booy’s: The Secret Lives of People in Love, but the premise looked really intriguing, so home with me it came. Opening on the eve of the millennium, when the world… Read more →

Review: The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy

Published by Darren on August 22, 2011 | 7 Responses

So, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything less than stellar comments on Simon Van Booy’s writing, and while short stories aren’t always my thing, I fell in love (ahem…) with the cover when I was in the Salt’s Mill bookshop the other day and brought the book home with me. (Starting it in the pub, the same day, while… Read more →

Review: Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman

Published by Darren on January 31, 2011 | 3 Responses

In this astounding book, David Eagleman entertains 40 fictional possibilities of life beyond death. With wit and humanity he asks the key questions about existence, hope, technology and love. These stories are full of big ideas and bold imagination. This audiobook assembles a stellar cast of readers who bring the scenarios of SUM brilliantly alive: Gillian Anderson, Emily Blunt, Nick… Read more →

Review: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton

Published by Darren on January 27, 2011 | 13 Responses

I‘m not even going to try to sum this collection up myself, so here is the publishers blurb!: Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish. Burton’s lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children – hopeful, yet… Read more →