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Mark Wagstaff
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Mark Wagstaff lives and works in London and the city provides the background to most of his stories. Mark has self-published two well-received novels, After Work and Claire, and a collection of short pieces, Blue Sunday Stories. Details at www.markwagstaff.com.
Mark's new novel In Sparta is now available from http://www.troubador.co.uk/book_info.asp?bookid=755 . An extract can be read at www.authonomy.com .
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The Light That Remains
Price £9.99 (p&p £1 per book)
Format: Demy
204 Pages
ISBN: 9781905599349
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A bookish boy’s learning to experience his city as a blind man would experience it; a fabled and helplessly destructive dragon that lives at the local takeaway and a biker’s encounter with a Harley-fancying mermaid. The Light That Remains and Other Stories contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Open Short Story Competition that ran during the winter of 2006. The fourteen superlative stories residing within represent the pick of crop.
Naked Thighs and Cotton Frocks and Other Stories
Short Story Anthology
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Format: Demi 156 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-905599-40-0
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The following day, the six thirty-eight travellers were greeted with a second image, similar to the first but fully erect this time, and in colour. It could have been a cutting from the same source as the first … although, with this new, brighter male form buzzing in front of their eyes, few of the passengers could now recall that other, duller picture. Certainly it wasn’t the same man: Miss Taplow noticed that at once. Years of working as a legal secretary had given her an instinct for detail. – Extract from ‘Naked Thighs and Cotton Frocks’ by Anne Shewring
A series of mysterious and increasingly explicit photographs befuddles the reticent travellers on the 06:38, two very different men are forced to confront their fears and desires during a claustrophobic coach trip and an aging seventies TV star pores over his memories of the Golden Age to find out where the faults lie. All of the above and more besides loiter between the covers of Naked Thighs and Cotton Frocks and Other Stories, which contains the eleven winning entries from the Leaf Books 2007 Short Story competition.