Escape Routes

Zusatztext An imaginative collection full of wide eyed wonder and millennial wit Informationen zum Autor Naomi Ishiguro studied writing at the University of East Anglia and is a former bookseller and bibliotherapist at Mr B.'s Emporium in Bath. She lives in London. Klappentext Characterised by its own brand of pleasingly unsettling magic! Naomi Ishiguro's ESCAPE ROUTES matches the inventiveness of David Mitchell with the fairy-tale allure of Angela Carter!A space-obsessed child conjures up a vortex in his mother's airing cupboard! A musician finds her friendship with a flock of birds opens up unexpected possibilities! A rat catcher! summoned to a decaying royal palace! is plunged into a battle for the throne of a ruined kingdom! Two newlyweds find themselves inhibited by the arrival in their lives of an outsized and watchful stuffed bear!Whether snared in traps artfully laid for them! or those of their own making! the characters in Naomi Ishiguro's delightfully speculative debut collection yearn for freedom and flight! and find their worlds transformed beyond their wildest imaginings! Zusammenfassung A delightfully speculative, quirky and magical debut story collection, for fans of David Mitchell and Angela Carter

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Ishiguro
• Publisher: Tinder Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781472264855
• ISBN: 978-1-4722-6485-5
• No. of pages: 289
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 223 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Folklore, myths & legends, Myth & legend told as fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales