博客來Rose Biggin is a writer and performer based in London who has long been delighting readers ’in the know’ with beautifully crafted stories. This, her debut collection, demonstrates why; as fine a mix of otherworldly fantasy and artful mysteries as any reader could wish for.
Featuring the author’s best stories to date, Make-Believe and Artifice showcases fifteen fictions drawn from the past decade, each a diversion to savour.
＂Effervescent, artful and joyfully mischievous, Make Believe and Artifice dances with the reader at every page. Rose Biggin is a fabulous writer.＂
- E.J. Swift
＂From her uncanny perspective into known worlds to her ability to fashion her own, Rose is undeniably one of the most fascinating - most unabashedly creative - voices in literature today.＂
- Jared Shurin in his Introduction
Contents:
Introduction by Jared Shurin
Chanticleer and the Peacock
The Gunman Who Came in from the Door
The Modjeska Waltz
A Map to Camelot
The Ghost of Cock Lane
The New Woman
Miss Scarlett
A Game Proposition
The Chandelier Bid (with Keir Cooper)
Golden Girl
The Tartest of Flavours
The Diamond Twenty Thousand Times
Bigger than the Ritz
Mrs Pepper’s Ghost
Helen/Hermione
The Arousing Adventures of Gelato Parlour
