Half a Creature from the Sea: A Life in Stories

An anthology of dark, powerful and moving short stories from a master storyteller and Hans Christian Andersen Award winning author, inspired by his childhood in the north-east of England.

A diverse collection of stories from the author of the internationally award-winning Skellig, deftly interwoven with illuminating autobiographical pieces on the inspirations behind the fiction. David Almond says of this unique volume, "Stories on the page are so beautifully neat. All that lovely black print; those lovely straight lines and paragraphs and pages. But stories are living things, creatures that move and grow in the imaginations of writer and reader. They must be solid and touchable, like the land, and must have fluid half-known depths, like the sea. These stories take place in a real world – but in fiction, real worlds merge with dreamed worlds. Real people walk with ghosts and figments. Earthly truth goes hand-in-hand with watery lies."

Title - Half a Creature from the Sea: A Life in Stories

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Author - David Almond

ISBN 13 - 9781406365597

Imprint - Walker Books Ltd

Publisher - Walker Books Ltd

Date Published - 07/04/2016

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 16mm

Weight - 218 g

Languages - English