HULLABALOO AND SECRET PIANOS
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ISBN-13: 978 - 1-905599-69-1
A collection of thirty-nine short stories about survival and travels beyond the normal and adventures of the heart.
There are psychiatric hospital patients who form an orchestra, a woman who becomes another person, the woman with a ghost in her throat, the blind cyclist, people who live in war zones and those who cross lines and lives, individuals who journey from normality to extreme alternatives and nevercome back. They travel beyond. They enter wonders and terrors. Their stories
ripple and surge and disturb.
Each story creates its own reality and yet there are shared elements to do with the way we see ourselves and others, the way we become our own stories and invent our own fictions, the way different realities merge and the past and future filter to create where we are in the present and the narratives surrounding us.
David Grubb has had short prose published by and in Carrilon, The Cornish Review, Chapman, Aireings, The Bridport Anthology, Leaf Books, Circus, With, Ambit, Stride, Voices For Arts For Labour, Stand, Voices For Kosovo, Horizon, Geometer and The Matthew’s House Project. He has also published novels, novellas and poetry collections. Three of his radio plays have been published in Poesie Europe and his short stories have been read on BBC Radio Somerset. He has reviewed for The Times Educational Supplement and Stride and edited two anthologies.
Some of his short stories result from David Grubb’s experiences working in a psychiatric hospital, his career as a teacher and his time as an aid worker in conflict zones and areas of extreme poverty such as Rwanda, Bosnia, Albania, Romania, Kosovo, Georgia and Haiti.
David Grubb has been creative writing tutor at the University of Reading, Norden Farm Arts Centre and the River and Rowing Museum, Henley. He has also tutored for The Arvon Foundation and been a visiting Lecturer several times at the University of the South West.
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