Louis de Bernieres is one of our most treasured writers and these stories show his imaginative range and unique storytelling power. The collection includes 'Gunter Weber's Confession' which revisits characters from Captain Corelli.
Louis de Berni res is the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book in 1995. His most recent books are So Much Life Left Over, The Dust That Falls From Dreams and The Autumn of the Ace, the short story collection Labels, the children's book Station Jim and the poetry collection The Cat in the Treble Clef.
A witty and warm collection
*The Times*
This entertaining collection of 14 short stories showcases all the
familiar tropes, stylistic flourishes and trademark deadpan humour
that make their author such a pleasure… A delight
*Mail on Sunday*
Delightfully imaginative stories
*i*
These stories often read like fairy tales for adults, and seem
intended, above all, to raise a smile… they do this very nicely…
Labels is an amusing and clever story, its absurdist tone well
fitted to its subject
*Financial Times*
Louis de Bernieres is a very genial observer of human folly. These
stories are warm and witty, peopled with fallible characters at the
mercy of their own prejudices and insecurities
*Daily Mail*
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