Books by Jean Sprackland

Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach

by Jean Sprackland

(122 reviews)

Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect... See More

Ellipsis One

by Jean Sprackland

(1 review)

Ellipsis is a set of books celebrating the 'short story sequence' - that interlocking daisy-chain of narrative produced when stories knit together to form a continuum of character or theme. An out-of-season seaside town, a... See More

Hyphen

by David Constantine

Too often the short story is regarded as merely a poor cousin of the novel, a weekend break for novelists - an assumption that demeans the short and neglects the fact that it has an anatomy all of its own. This anthology is... See More

Elsewhere: Stories from Small Town Europe (Comma Translation)

by Roman Simic

(7 reviews)

What do we mean by small town? How has this innocuous term - one up from 'village', a couple down from 'city' - come to function as a pejorative? Pressed to describe what the phrase 'small town' conjures up, we'd be hard... See More