Publisher's Synopsis
Described by first readers as 'Deliciously Dark' enter the world of writer Pete Sutton. Tales themed on the counting magpies song - "One for sorrow... " A Tiding of Magpies is an enchanting short story collection which will give you a pleasurable shiver up the spine as you guess at which stories are inspired by which lines of the song.Whether it is waking up to unmentionable sounds in Not Alone, or taking a trip to the land of stories in Five for Silver, the surprising use of a robot butler in I, Butler or the competition winners It Falls and An Unexpected Return, and many more, these thirty one tales, ranging from tiny flash fiction to long stories of several thousand words, always entertain, even when they disconcert.These darkly fantastical tales have been published in anthologies and magazines or written especially and collected here for the first time by Kensington Gore Publishing.Pete Sutton helps organise Bristol Festival of Literature where he is well-known as 'the genre guy.' He writes The Bristol Book Blog - http: //brsbkblog.blogspot.co.uk/ as well as edits Far Horizons Magazine - https: //farhorizonsmagazine.wordpress.com/ "Pete Sutton has a talent for the fantastic." - Paul Cornell (Shadow Police series, This Damned Band, Doctor Who, Elementary)"...there is a sweet and subtle music to Sutton's stories. They take you to strange places." - Mike Carey (Lucifer, The Unwritten, The Girl with all the Gifts, Fellside)"As if Raymond Carver turned his hand to writing science fiction." - David Gullen (Clarke Award judg
