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An anthology of dark, powerful and moving short stories from master storyteller David Almond, inspired by his childhood in the north-east of England. It features coming of age stories on the theme of closeness to home, deftly interwoven with illuminating autobiographical pieces on the inspirations behind the fiction. David Almond says of this unique collection, "Stories on the page are so beautifully neat. All that lovely black print; those lovely straight lines and paragraphs and pages. But stories are living things, creatures that move and grow in the imaginations of writer and reader. They must be solid and touchable, like the land, and must have fluid half-known depths, like the sea. These stories take place in a real world - but in fiction, real worlds merge with dreamed worlds. Real people walk with ghosts and figments. Earthly truth goes hand-in-hand with watery lies."

Table Of Contents

Slog's dad

May Malone

when God came to Cathleen's garden

the missing link

Harry Miller's run

half a creature from the sea

Joe Quinn's poltergeist

Klaus Vogel & the bad lads

Intended Audience

Juvenile

Young adult

Authorized Access Point

Almond, David, 1951- Half a creature from the sea

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