Emma Harris
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Cornish Short Stories: A Collection of Contemporary Cornish Writing
Shortlisted for a Holyer an Gof Award 2019 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 anticipation of a first kiss. Time stops for nothing - not even for death. Sometimes time cracks, disrupting a fragile equilibrium. These 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. Throught, the writeres' words reveal a love of the incomparable Cornish landscape.
The Lost Of Syros
Long-listed for the Edge Hill Short Story Award 2016 Like the group of lovers caught in bittersweet relationships in the title story, the characters in this collection are all trying to find their way, whether it is to escape the hold of the past, understand the complexities of adult emotion, or face up to the shocking disjunction between dream and reality. Set in diverse locations - from the Cornish Riviera to the lush fringes of the Australia’s tropical rainforest, from the wild beaches of southern New Zealand to the west coast of Ireland - revelations come to these characters unexpectedly: in a shower of gold on a snow-covered volcano in Antarctica; at a graffiti-scarred Aboriginal sacred site; in a mouthful of cake. The guiding spirit of the Modernist writer Katherine Mansfield flits through the collection as she picnics with her partner and a would-be lover by a Cornish lighthouse, writes her last words in Fontainebleau, and glides on the wings of an albatross past a tiny hamlet on the edge of the Southern Ocean. In these stories, characters learn to understand and, at times, to overcome their distress, whether it is caused by parental neglect, loss or any other of life’s difficulties. Added to this is the potent magic of fiction itself, Katherine Mansfield’s brittle, darkly brilliant influence, and the power of place to heal us and help us move on.
Travelling in the Dark
Winner of the Hall and Woodhouse DLFl Writing Prize 2019. Longlisted for the Not the Booker Prize 2019 and selected as a Big Issue Summer Read 2018. Travelling back to her home town with her young son, Sarah is ready to face up to what she ran away from ten years ago. As delays and diversions force her to return to well-known places from her youth, Sarah reflects on the relationships with her family and the events of the past that have shaped her present. Set in the wild, beautiful and unreliable landscape of southern New Zealand, Emma Timpany’s novella is an evocative story of a woman coming to terms with her past.