![]() ![]() “Some of the stories are based on experiences and people I’ve known during my lifetime – I have been around a little bit – and others are pure imagination. He adds: “The first story is sort of an off-beat romance and the second one is a cricket romance/drama, and the third one is a story to do with a boxer I once had an encounter with. ![]() “It was a little bit of a send-up of the politicians and so forth but I’d better not say too much.” ![]() John, 81, notes that there are 24 stories altogether – “and that actually includes a limerick, which isn’t strictly a story, but it’s a little limerick written during the first onset of Covid. There’s a bit of drama, there’s a ghost story, and I hope there’s something for everyone but it’s not for me to say.” There’s a bit of romance, there’s some crime in there, a bit of satire, a bit of humour. “It’s an eclectic mix and the longest story is just over 10,000 words, and there are some very short ones. John, a retired journalist who has had four novels published – Agent from Hell, Underbelly of Cambridge, A World Ruled by Mice and The Vulcan Who Got Into Print – as well as another book of short stories, says of his latest work: “It’s a collection of short stories which I’ve written over a period – I suppose most of them since retiring and half of them during the first onset of Covid. Cambridge author John Phelps has a new book out: a collection of short stories titled A Kind of Magic. ![]()
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Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Roddy Doyle (born ) is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. The Barrytown Trilogy, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, The Woman Who Walked into Doors, A Star Called Henry Novelist, dramatist, short story writer, screenwriter, teacher ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This attractive new edition, unabridged and inexpensive, offers an irresistible invitation to a master storyteller's enduring tale of a boy's initiation into adulthood. ![]() The author's only novel to unfold in an American setting, this lively tale resounds with Kipling's customary blend of adventure and humor. Luckily, young Harvey Cheyne is rescued by a passing fishing vessel. ![]() In 1871 Rudyard and his sister, Trix, aged three. At the start of Captains Courageous, one of literatures most beloved stories of the sea, a spoiled rich boy is literally swept away dashed overboard from an ocean liner. Readers of all ages have delighted in Kipling's engaging maritime yarn since its initial appearance in 1897. RUDYARD KIPLING was born in Bombay, India, to British parents on December 30, 1865. Compelled by the captain to earn his keep, Harvey loses his affectations as he learns the rewards of an honest day's labor amid the gruff and hearty companionship of the crewmen, who teach him to be worth his salt as they fish the waters off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Luckily, young Harvey Cheyne is rescued by a passing fishing vessel.Īs it turns out, Harvey's apparent misfortune in tumbling from a life of pampered luxury into the humble company of a fishing schooner becomes a blessing in disguise. 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