First heard on BBC Radio 4.Water is commodified. The Water Train that serves the city increasingly at risk of sabotage. As news breaks that construction of a gigantic Ice Dock will displace more people than first thought, protestors take to the stree...Daugiau...
The stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award with BookTrust 2017 all feature characters that are disconnected, willingly or unwillingly, from those around them: a mysterious out-of-towner is shunned by her new colleagues; a grieving...Daugiau...
Zwei MƤnner, die auf ihre Chance warten. Holden setzt alles daran, ein Versprechen einzulƶsen, das er einem sterbenden Freund gegeben hat, wƤhrend Grzegorz auf ein besseres Leben fĆ¼r seine Familie hofft und zu allem bereit ist ā¦ Zwei MƤnner, d...Daugiau...
Daniel ayuda a las ovejas a traer corderos al mundo. El hombre corpulento caza tejones con sus perros. Trabajar el tejĆ³n para luego ponerlo a pelear ante los apostadores es un deporte prohibido pero bastante cultivado, una subcultura que resiste y...Daugiau...
Deep in rural Wales, a farmer is struggling through lambing season when he becomes aware that his land is being stalked by a badger-baiter who brings with him the stark threat of violence. Built of the interlocking fates of these two solitary men, th...Daugiau...
Take three strangers who all want something more. The Polish shift worker struggling to get a foothold in the new country; a fisherman who needs to make good on a promise to his best friend; and the middle man, determined to make up for lost time an...Daugiau...
When the farmer wakes at dawn, he can already feel the heat of the day rising and the silence from his wife hanging heavy in the air. As he sets out across his parched fields to find a missing cow, his mind starts to turn over the dreams he harbours...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Nov-2012, EPUB+DRM, Leidėjas: Poetry Wales Press, ISBN-13: 9781854116079)
Hoping to give him a better start in life, Peredurs mother takes him from the estates. But when local kids cycle into his life he heads off after them, accompained by the notion of finding Arthur - an absent, imaginary guardian.. And thats when the...Daugiau...
