<p>A collection of short stories which are all set in the Caribbean and London. Pauline Melville is the winner of "The Guardian" Fiction Prize and winner of the Macmillan Silver Pen Award. This book was also awarded the 1991 Commonwealth Writers Prize for best first book.</p>

Shape-shifter

Literature & Fiction

Pauline Melville

Short Stories & Anthologies

Pan Books

Shape Shifter

Contemporary

BLOOMSBURY

The Ventriloquist's Tale

Isis Audio Books

Eating Air

What could a ballerina, an anarchist, an Islamic terrorist and a banker possibly have in common? Our narrator, the enigmatic, piano-playing, rum drinking, Baron S knows. And he's ready to tell. Moving between the seventies and the present-day, between London, Italy and Surinam, Pauline Melville marshals a brilliant cast of characters to tell an explosive tale of greed, passion and revolutionary ideals.

Telegram Books

Shape-Shifter

From Comrade Shakespeare McNab who enlists the help of La Diablesse to retrieve his faltering career at a Caribbean broadcasting station, to the fourteen-year-old English girl who develops a terror of infi nity; from the electrifying description of a woman attacked as she lies sleeping, to the lyrical exploration of myths of El Dorado, Pauline Melville lures the reader into intriguing different worlds. The sheer malevolence of everyday life is offset with hilarity, making these stories both unsettling and funny.

Telegram

<p>'In this virtuoso performance, Pauline Melville shows us a world in upheaval, and reminds us that that's where we live.' -Salman Rushdie  A Nobel laureate struggles to write a convincing suicide note; a hobo sings of hope in the darkest hours after the Grenfell disaster; in a strange post-death waiting room, Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary exchange confidences, and a scientist finally discovers the appalling truth about a boyhood friendship.  Unpredictable, haunting, with a streak of black humour, this collection ranges across the world, from Petersburg to Guyana, Syria to London, Argentina to Edinburgh. Its diverse characters are caught up in wars or revolution, escaping the past or finally returning to confront it.</p>

The Master of Chaos and Other Fables

Genre Fiction

Sandstone Press Ltd

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