Premium Members Get 10% Off and Earn Rewards Find Out More
Wrapped Town and Other Stories

Wrapped Town and Other Stories

by Jules Horne
Wrapped Town and Other Stories

Wrapped Town and Other Stories

by Jules Horne

Overview

'Unputdownable... exquisitely crafted... a supreme storyteller' - Marilyn Runcie

'Deliciously surreal... lovers of Carter, Winterson and Atwood will adore this' - Ellie Zeegen

'Wise, witty and wonderful... reaffirmed my love of the short story.' Claire Wingfield

23 stories of extraordinary imagination by award-winning Scottish writer Jules Horne.

Dolly the Sheep is anointed by angels, a girl rugby-tackles Scottish country dancers, an old horse bequeaths its bones, an artist wraps a town in a shimmering canopy...

Fans of Angela Carter, Ray Bradbury and Patrick Suskind will enjoy this first collection of prize-winners and published stories in the Scottish Gothic tradition by Borders writer Jules Horne.

Immensely talented and truly original - Anjali Singh, Vintage Books

Jules's plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio and won two Edinburgh Fringe Firsts. She writes in a former weaving mill in Selkirk, with a blues band next door.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780993435430
Publisher: Texthouse
Publication date: 09/07/2016
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Jules Horne is an award-winning playwright and fiction writer from Scotland. She studied German and French at Oxford University and worked as a translator and journalist in Germany and Switzerland, before becoming a full-time writer. Her plays have been performed on BBC Radio and at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and she teaches creative writing for the Open University.
From the B&N Reads Blog
Page 1 of

Customer Reviews