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  Transactions with the Fallen

  Michael Elcock

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  In this new collection of short stories, author Michael Elcock explores a variety of inner worlds and lived experiences: survival and betrayal in Germany after World War II ... life in the Scottish highlands ... trouble with army ants ... 
  ADVANCE PRAISE FOR TRANSACTIONS WITH THE FALLEN 
  "Michael Elcock's stories enchant, disturb and remind us of the many worlds we inhabit. Touching on intimate moments and interactions, not a lot happens in these intertwined tales, and that is precisely their strength. A young man sits with an older woman one evening and learns about love. A soldier coaxes music out of a battered piano in an attempt to stay alive. Transactions with the Fallen is a study of human relationships told with an exacting eye for detail and the resonant moment." ---Eve Joseph, Griffin Poetry Prize Winner, 2019 
  "There's a lot to be learned from other people's childhoods---and from other people's adulthoods too, if they've been lucky enough to have one. When they're luckier still, there's a lot to be learned from other people's imaginations. In this remarkable book of stories, Michael Elcock offers us the fruits of all three: a rich, multifaceted childhood, a robust, thoughtful adulthood, and a lively, athletic imagination." ---Robert Bringhurst, author, poet, and recipient of the British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence 
  ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
  Born in Scotland, Michael Elcock emigrated to Canada at age twenty-one and now lives on Vancouver Island. A memoir about his travels to Belfast, Malta, Hawaii, Prague, Paris, Oman, and Andalusia, entitled A Perfectly Beautiful Place, was published in 2004. Other books include Writing on Stone (2006), a novel, The Gate (2012), and a fictionalized memoir, Eyes of Rain and Ragged Dreams: Coming of Age in Edinburgh (2017).

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  Delilah and Mr Bircumshaw

  D H Lawrence

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  'Delilah and Mr Bircumshaw was written by D H Lawrence in 1912. Lawrence is beginning to move away from his working class roots in this story, and exploring the relationship of a middle-class couple who have a slight argument, egged on by the wife's friend. Bircumshaw loses his dignity and self-respect for the comforts of married life. For all his insights into women, the misogynist in Lawrence can be detected.

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  Your Sons and Your Daughters Are...

  Rosie Garland

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  "Who's afraid of a girl who shines bright?" Rosie Garland's spellbinding short story collection explores extraordinary people defying expectations. Blurring natural and supernatural, these enchanting yet disquieting stories unveil the extraordinary within ordinary people. Garland deftly unveils our deepest fears and desires, embracing transformative potential. Brace for a journey pushing imagination's limits, where the impossible becomes reality.

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  The Blind Accordionist

  C.D. Rose

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  In the novel Who's Who When Everyone Is Someone Else, the character "C. D. Rose" (not to be confused with the author C. D. Rose) searches an unnamed middle-European city for the long-lost manuscript of a little-known writer named Maxim Guyavitch. That search was fruitless, but in The Blind Accordionist, "C. D. Rose" has found the manuscript—nine sparkling, fable-like short stories—and he presents them here with an (hilarious) introduction explaining the discovery, and an afterword providing (hilarious) critical commentary on the stories, and what they might reveal about the mysterious Guyavitch. 
   
   
   
  The Blind Accordionist is another masterful book of world-making by the real C. D. Rose, absorbing in its mix of intelligence and light-heartedness, and its ultimate celebration of literature itself. It is the third novel in the series about "C. D. Rose," although the reader does not need to have read the previous two books. (The first in the series was The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure; the second was Who's Who When Everyone Is Someone Else.) 
   
   
   
  Like those books, The Blind Accordionist can be read both as a simple but wonderful collection of quirky stories, and as comedy—or as a beautiful and moving elegy on the nobility of writers wanting to be read.

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  Punchkin

  Mary Frere

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  Mary Eliza Isabella Frere (1845–1911) was an English author of works regarding India. She is most famous for her beautiful retellings of Indian fairy tales.  
  "Punchkin" is a traditional fairy tale about a Rajah with seven daughters. When he remarries, the princesses' stepmother is determined to do away with the girls and make her own daughter the heir to the throne. A series of adventures and trials follows which leads to the overthrow of an evil magician.

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  To Be a Hero

  M.H. Lee

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  When the television networks take over the war and turn it into the latest reality television sensation, one young recruit learns what it really means to be a hero.

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