Make-Believe and Artifice - Polestars, #11

Rose Biggin is a writer and performer based in London and lectures in Creative Writing at Birkbeck (University of London). Rose has long been delighting readers 'in the know' with beautifully crafted stories, tales that often play around with myth or classic literary concepts, using them as a springboard for her own unique imagination.

This, her debut collection, demonstrates why she is so highly regarded – 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 of which is a diversion to savour.

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     
About the Author                          

"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 
 
"Rose is undeniably one of the most fascinating – most unabashedly creative – voices in literature today." – Jared Shurin in his Introduction.