![]() ![]() “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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