Riptide Volume 4

This collection of 17 new stories includes ‘The Dahlia Bed’ by acclaimed novelist, poet and short story writer Helen Dunmore.  First-time novelist  Nicholas Hogg whose ‘Show me the Sky’ was described as ‘an assured and gripping debut’ (BBC Radio 3) creates the confused world of a ten year old child in ‘Sammy’ and multiple award winner Henry Shukman uses his ‘considerable powers of evocation’ (The Observer) to bring a tale of Colombian mystery to life. 

Renowned poet Jane Draycott makes her entrance as a short story writer in this volume with ‘Reef’ set in the heat of East Africa and the cold of an Italian ski resort. David Gaffney contributes five more of his ‘witty, clever and poignant’ (Time Out) micro-stories while Kachi Ozumba brings his ‘astonishing gift for catching detail’ (The Independent) to portray the taboo-breaking dilemma of a young Nigerian.  Throughout there is a sense of summer slipping away.  Dirt Pie Press (out now)

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