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Wrapped Town and Other Stories - Softcover

Horne, Jules

 
9780993435430: Wrapped Town and Other Stories

Synopsis

Fans of Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter will love these wonderfully dark, wise and witty stories by award-winning Scottish writer Jules Horne.

  • "a dazzling storyteller" Simon & Schuster
  • "immensely talented and truly original" Vintage Books
  • An artist wraps a town in a canopy of blue, Dolly the sheep is anointed by angels, an old horse splits apart, a girl tackles the scrum of Scottish country dancing…
  • Prize-winners from the Macallan Short Story Competition, Fish Prize, Story Cellar, BBC Radio, and previously unpublished stories, including:
  • Small Blue Thing
  • Agnus Dei
  • Bill McLaren Was My PE Teacher
  • Pawkie Paiterson’s Auld Grey Yaud
  • Wrapped Town
  • Life Kit #1
  • www.juleshorne.com
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    About the Author

    Jules Horne is an award-winning playwright and fiction writer from Scotland. She studied German and French at Oxford University and worked as a translator and journalist in Germany and Switzerland, before becoming a full-time writer. Her plays have been performed on BBC Radio and at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and she teaches creative writing for the Open University.

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