The Fox & The Fish
Published on 1. November 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
266 pages
978-0-9548373-2-7 (ISBN)
Description
Julius McEarly, in a surreal landscape of his own metaphoric inner thoughts and haphazard projections of reality, is a man on the run from a previous life. He sees himself as a Fish... but not just any Fish... A Capital Letter Fish... a Noun Fish... moonlit of the Scales and slick and agile of the Fin. In his search for Anarchy, Freedom and Love, with perhaps along the way just a little Immortality, his dearest wish is to become ordinary and rejoin The Shoal. Struggling to survive in a world where 'Normality' is under a process of constant revision, he finds his future placed in the hands of an eleven-year-old Tinker girl... whose hair is a bright conflagration upon her head, whose lies wisp her teeth like chicken feathers, and whose eyes are blacker than he ever saw on a Kipper. Enter The Fox...
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sheffield
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
287 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9548373-2-7 (9780954837327)
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Person
Bill Allerton lives and works in Sheffield UK. His partner, Bryony Doran, is also a prize-winning author. Bill retired from a successful business to write for a living, but mostly that's become 'living to write', given that so few authors actually make it to the megabucks stage. During his working life Bill has had many occupations, giving him a broad experience from which to draw new lines for his characters, so if you feel that you know them... perhaps you do... perhaps it's you...His influences are: Ray Bradbury, Malcolm Lowry, Herman Melville, Thomas Pynchon, Arthur C. Clarke, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Cormac McCarthy, Keith Waterhouse and Spike Milligan. Prizes: Fish Prize 2001 (Story anthologised and attended West Cork Literary Festival to read his submission 'To Kill a Wish')Chesterfield Pomegranate Theatre: New Playwright Awards'To Kill a Wish', the Fish Prize story, reworked for the stage and performed live.BBC Radio Sheffield: Six pieces of short fiction recorded and broadcast.Past Mentors (at least a week in the company of each)Anne Enright, Colm Toibin, Bernadine Evaristo, Ruth Padel, Peter Sansom, Berlie DohertyNoted writers he has worked with closely in the publishing of an anthology of short fiction ('Watch & Wait', 2014) on behalf of The Lymphoma Association.Ian McMillan, Marina Lewycka, Bryony Doran, Susan Elliott Wright, Berlie Doherty, Angela Robson, Judith Allnatt, Danuta Reah, Lesley Glaister, Caroline Pitcher, Kirstin Zhang, Henry Shukman, David Swann and Jemma Kennedy among others.