<p>"An amazing collection"</p>

- Morgan Omotoye,

<p>‘Outlandish, funny, moving and ingeniously fresh.'</p>

- Rufus Jones, Cherwell

<p>"The stories in <em>Parables, Fables, Nightmares</em> showed great poise to conjure the very real dilemmas of all-too-human characters. They are written with a fantastic syncopated poetry and uniquely fitting architecture. The collection itself displays a superb diversity which makes for an eclectic and edifying and very nourishing book."</p>

- Tom Conaghan,

Winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2024, Debut Collection Award

A man jumps, the platform empties, then the stories begin. Filled with tales of tragedy, love, hope and frustration, Malachi McIntosh's debut collection of short stories offers surreal and satirical accounts of the many perils of contemporary life. From resistant mothers and unexpected corporate climbers, to doomed weddings and unwelcome visitors, these dark, comedic and uncanny stories contend with timeless concerns of parenthood, family, race and identity in the here and now.

Whether characters are absorbed in social media or burying their grief, raising themselves up or taking others down, Parables, Fables, Nightmares brings a light to our interactions in an ailing world and heralds the arrival of a unique new voice in fiction.

Les mer
Filled with tales of tragedy, love, hope and frustration, Malachi McIntosh's debut collection of short stories offers surreal and satirical accounts of the many perils of contemporary life. Parables, Fables, Nightmares brings a light to our interactions in an ailing world and heralds the arrival of a unique new voice in fiction.
Les mer

“Malachi McIntosh conjures worlds that lie at the extremes of our imagination and at the center of our experience. The parables are visceral and unsettling, beautiful and charming, all at once. Every character stands out as much as they are a stand-in for a stereotype; their chatty bonhomie is captured with absolute finesse. This book is a delightful read.”

Les mer

Surreal and satirical musings of contemporary life.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781915628190
Publisert
2023-09-14
Utgiver
The Emma Press; The Emma Press
Vekt
136 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
10 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Cover design or artwork by

Om bidragsyterne

Malachi McIntosh's fiction and non-fiction have been published in The Caribbean Review of Books, the Guardian, the Independent, and Comma Press's Book of Birmingham. His stories have been long- and shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Prize, the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Galley Beggar Short Story Competition, Penguin Book's WriteNow and the Book Edit Writer's Prize, and commissioned by the National Trust and Lincoln University. Malachi is a recipient of a British Library Eccles Fellowship and a Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award and was Editor and Publishing Director of Wasafiri from 2019-2022. He is currently an Associate Professor of World Literature at the University of Oxford. Artist-printmaker Mark Andrew Webber specialises in painstakingly-researched typographic and geometric projects, including his ‘Where in the World’ series of enormous city maps and ‘FORM’, a six-part study of line and form. In 2007, Webber was awarded a Silver Cube award from the Art Directors Club of New York. His first solo exhibition, ‘Wonderlust’, was on display at the Londonewcastle Project Space in London in 2014. He collaborated with poet Jacqueline Saphra on her pamphlet If I Lay on my Back I Saw Nothing but Naked Women (Emma Press, 2014), illustrating her poems with linocuts inspired by his lifedrawing sketches. He is based in Reading.