I Am the Mask Maker
and other stories
Published on 31. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
175 pages
978-1-9169057-0-2 (ISBN)
Description
I Am the Mask Maker and other stories brings together eleven of Rhiannon Lewis's compelling short stories. They transport
us to places as varied as plague-ridden Renaissance Venice, a failing antiquarian bookshop in inner-city London, a struggling family farm in 1960s' West Wales, and a soon to be discontinued Heaven where the angels are packing up to leave. Vividly drawn, with wit and subtlety, Lewis's characters are determined not to be pawns in worlds where the odds are stacked against them; to thrive, they often come up with solutions that are unconventional and unexpected.
This collection includes: The Significance of Swans, shortlisted by the Bristol Prize in 2018, The Last Flight of La Librairie d'Afrique du Nord, shortlisted by the H.G. Wells Short Story Competition in 2020, The Jugs Stay with the Dresser, winner
of Frome Festival's short story competition in 2017, and Piano Solo, winner of the Adult Short Story category in the William Faulkner Literary Contest in 2020.
Rhiannon Lewis is the acclaimed author of My Beautiful Imperial, which was a Walter Scott Prize Academy recommended historical novel for 2018.
I Am the Mask Maker and other stories brings together eleven of Rhiannon Lewis's compelling short stories. They transport
us to places as varied as plague-ridden Renaissance Venice, a failing antiquarian bookshop in inner-city London, a struggling family farm in 1960s' West Wales, and a soon to be discontinued Heaven where the angels are packing up to leave. Vividly drawn, with wit and subtlety, Lewis's characters are determined not to be pawns in worlds where the odds are stacked against them; to thrive, they often come up with solutions that are unconventional and unexpected.
This collection includes: The Significance of Swans, shortlisted by the Bristol Prize in 2018, The Last Flight of La Librairie d'Afrique du Nord, shortlisted by the H.G. Wells Short Story Competition in 2020, The Jugs Stay with the Dresser, winner
of Frome Festival's short story competition in 2017, and Piano Solo, winner of the Adult Short Story category in the William Faulkner Literary Contest in 2020.
Rhiannon Lewis is the acclaimed author of My Beautiful Imperial, which was a Walter Scott Prize Academy recommended historical novel for 2018.
us to places as varied as plague-ridden Renaissance Venice, a failing antiquarian bookshop in inner-city London, a struggling family farm in 1960s' West Wales, and a soon to be discontinued Heaven where the angels are packing up to leave. Vividly drawn, with wit and subtlety, Lewis's characters are determined not to be pawns in worlds where the odds are stacked against them; to thrive, they often come up with solutions that are unconventional and unexpected.
This collection includes: The Significance of Swans, shortlisted by the Bristol Prize in 2018, The Last Flight of La Librairie d'Afrique du Nord, shortlisted by the H.G. Wells Short Story Competition in 2020, The Jugs Stay with the Dresser, winner
of Frome Festival's short story competition in 2017, and Piano Solo, winner of the Adult Short Story category in the William Faulkner Literary Contest in 2020.
Rhiannon Lewis is the acclaimed author of My Beautiful Imperial, which was a Walter Scott Prize Academy recommended historical novel for 2018.
I Am the Mask Maker and other stories brings together eleven of Rhiannon Lewis's compelling short stories. They transport
us to places as varied as plague-ridden Renaissance Venice, a failing antiquarian bookshop in inner-city London, a struggling family farm in 1960s' West Wales, and a soon to be discontinued Heaven where the angels are packing up to leave. Vividly drawn, with wit and subtlety, Lewis's characters are determined not to be pawns in worlds where the odds are stacked against them; to thrive, they often come up with solutions that are unconventional and unexpected.
This collection includes: The Significance of Swans, shortlisted by the Bristol Prize in 2018, The Last Flight of La Librairie d'Afrique du Nord, shortlisted by the H.G. Wells Short Story Competition in 2020, The Jugs Stay with the Dresser, winner
of Frome Festival's short story competition in 2017, and Piano Solo, winner of the Adult Short Story category in the William Faulkner Literary Contest in 2020.
Rhiannon Lewis is the acclaimed author of My Beautiful Imperial, which was a Walter Scott Prize Academy recommended historical novel for 2018.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Market Drayton
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-9169057-0-2 (9781916905702)
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RHIANNON LEWIS was born in Cardigan, West Wales and grew up on a small farm near the coast. She won her first literary competition (held by the Culture Department of Dyfed Libraries) at the age of 17, for a collection of Welsh language short stories. However, any ambition to be a writer had to take a back seat whilst raising a family and earning a living.
She began writing again in 2011. In December 2017, Victorina Press published her debut novel, My Beautiful Imperial, based on the experiences of her great-great uncle who became involved, inadvertently, in the Chilean civil war of 1891.
In March 2018, it was listed by the Walter Scott Prize Academy as one of its recommended historical novels for that year. In 2019, it was translated into Spanish by Guisela Parra Molina and published as Mi Querido Imperial. Her, as yet unpublished novella, The Significance of Swans, came second in the New Welsh Writing Awards, 2019.
RHIANNON LEWIS was born in Cardigan, West Wales and grew up on a small farm near the coast. She won her first literary competition (held by the Culture Department of Dyfed Libraries) at the age of 17, for a collection of Welsh language short stories. However, any ambition to be a writer had to take a back seat whilst raising a family and earning a living.
She began writing again in 2011. In December 2017, Victorina Press published her debut novel, My Beautiful Imperial, based on the experiences of her great-great uncle who became involved, inadvertently, in the Chilean civil war of 1891.
In March 2018, it was listed by the Walter Scott Prize Academy as one of its recommended historical novels for that year. In 2019, it was translated into Spanish by Guisela Parra Molina and published as Mi Querido Imperial. Her, as yet unpublished novella, The Significance of Swans, came second in the New Welsh Writing Awards, 2019.
She began writing again in 2011. In December 2017, Victorina Press published her debut novel, My Beautiful Imperial, based on the experiences of her great-great uncle who became involved, inadvertently, in the Chilean civil war of 1891.
In March 2018, it was listed by the Walter Scott Prize Academy as one of its recommended historical novels for that year. In 2019, it was translated into Spanish by Guisela Parra Molina and published as Mi Querido Imperial. Her, as yet unpublished novella, The Significance of Swans, came second in the New Welsh Writing Awards, 2019.
RHIANNON LEWIS was born in Cardigan, West Wales and grew up on a small farm near the coast. She won her first literary competition (held by the Culture Department of Dyfed Libraries) at the age of 17, for a collection of Welsh language short stories. However, any ambition to be a writer had to take a back seat whilst raising a family and earning a living.
She began writing again in 2011. In December 2017, Victorina Press published her debut novel, My Beautiful Imperial, based on the experiences of her great-great uncle who became involved, inadvertently, in the Chilean civil war of 1891.
In March 2018, it was listed by the Walter Scott Prize Academy as one of its recommended historical novels for that year. In 2019, it was translated into Spanish by Guisela Parra Molina and published as Mi Querido Imperial. Her, as yet unpublished novella, The Significance of Swans, came second in the New Welsh Writing Awards, 2019.