![]() ![]() He's not joking when he calls 'em 'tiny', either. (Which made him feel pretty smug, as you can probably imagine.)įorty-three brilliantly strange - and strangely brilliant - stories by Nick Parker make up this extremely funny, quietly surreal and sometimes worryingly sinister collection which doesn't quite slot into any literary category at all. a tremendous collection which sets the bar extremely high.' Bookmunch These forty two short, funny and sometimes strange short stories ask the questions that are on everybody's lips: Why did the national anthem turn out rubbish? Why has the supply teacher blacked out all the windows? Why have the islanders run amok like that? Where do those ladders go, anyway? And what, exactly, is up with all the walruses? Parker's brilliantly bizarre stories have been compared to George Saunders, Magnus Mills, Edward Gorey, Tim Burton, Donald Barthelme and Richard Brautigan. ![]() 'Creepily brilliant' The Mail on Sunday 'Fit to rub shoulders with the likes of Richard Brautigan. Just what the form is for.' John Mitchinson, author of QI: The Book of General Ignorance. 'I bloody LOVE these stories: short, clever, oblique. ![]() Proof that the short story is still a public good.' Ian Sansom, The Guardian. forty two short, swift, crowd-pleasing stories. ![]()
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