The Master of Chaos and Other Fables

£13.49

RRP: £14.99

Price-Match is available in-store for recommended titles in CCCU module handbooks

ISBN: 9781913207540

Products specifications

Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	Melville, Pauline
Pub Date	01/07/2021
Binding	Hardback
Pages	208

Publisher: UNKNOWN

Availability: Available for despatch from the bookshop in 48 hours

Unpredictable, haunting, with a streak of black humour, this collection of short stories ranges across the world, from Petersburg to Guyana, Syria to London, Argentina to Edinburgh. Its diverse characters are caught up in wars or revolution, escaping the past or finally returning to confront it.

Qty:

A Nobel laureate struggles to write a convincing suicide note; a hobo sings of hope in the darkest hours after the Grenfell disaster; in a strange post-death waiting room, Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary exchange confidences, and a scientist finally discovers the appalling truth about a boyhood friendship. Unpredictable, haunting, with a streak of black humour, this collection ranges across the world, from Petersburg to Guyana, Syria to London, Argentina to Edinburgh. Its diverse characters are caught up in wars or revolution, escaping the past or finally returning to confront it.