CORNISH SHORT STORIES
This bold and striking new anthology showcases Cornwall’s finest contemporary writers, combining established and new voices. Ghosts walk in the open and infidelities are conducted in plain sight. Two teenagers walk along a perfect beach in the anticipation of a first kiss. Time stops for nothing—not even for death. Sometimes time cracks, disrupting a fragile equilibrium.
The stories are peopled with locals and incomers, sailors and land dwellers; a diver searches the deep for what she has lost, and forbidden lovers meet in secret places. Throughout, the writers’ words reveal a love of the incomparable Cornish landscape.
The Writers
Philipa Aldous
Cathy Galvin
Anastasia Gammon
Tim Hannigan
Clare Howdle
Adrian Markle
Tim Martindale
Candy Neubert
Felicity Notley
Sarah Perry
S. Reid
Alan Robinson
Rob Magnuson Smith
Katherine Stansfield
Sarah Thomas
Emma Timpany
Tom Vowler
Elaine Ruth White
'Each and every voice here is vivid, vital and insistent.'
Literature Works book review. Read the full review here.
'The book closes with the soft tread of our ancestors crossing the Tamar River for the first time ...'
Created to Read book review by Rachel Carney.
The Book Cover
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Vita Sleigh
The book cover for Cornish Short Stories was designed by illustrator Vita Sleigh.
Vita supports animal rights and recently exhibited at an art exhibition at Paintworks in Bristol called The Liberation Arts Festival.
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The Woodcut Illustrations
Angela Annesley
Angela works as a printmaker in her dedicated studios Ravenstongue near Land's End.
Limited edition woodcut prints from Cornish Short Stories can be can be found here, as well as her other artwork. Angela and her sister Sarah Thomas have collaborated on illustrated books.
