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None No current Talk conversations about this book. 1   DeltaQueen50 | Jul 12, 2017 |   This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways. A collection of fantastical stories themed by the nursery rhyme "One for sorrow..." I'm not a huge lover of short stories, so when I get to read a collection where not only each separate story excites me, but the overall progression is intriguing, it's a rare treat. I really enjoyed these stories, especially the ones that were on the creepier side of comfortable. But, importantly, along with the fantastic and the disturbing, there are some very thoughtful ponderings on the state of a human spirit in isolation, in this case mostly placed in potentially dystopian environments, but the ideas as certainly universal. The publisher has included a few extra stories, which was odd for me at first since they didn't match the theme, but the quality of those stories very much make up for it. Highly recommended to anyone who likes fantasy and short stories! (  )1 -Eva- | Jul 2, 2016 | This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways. I've always liked short stories, and these were fascinating. Some were a tad too short for my taste, but overall I thought they were excellent. Definitely recommend this collection. (  )1 Pierre_Benoit | Jun 27, 2016 | no reviews | add a review
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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 judge) No library descriptions found. |
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The author cleverly uses the familiar counting rhyme, “One For Sorrow” based on magpies as both the inspiration for the title and as a theme that weaves through various stories. Of course some stories spoke to me a little louder than others and I suspect that everyone will have certain stories in this collection that will do this. I knew from the first story, “Roadkill” that I was embarking on an intriguing voyage and this was backed up with the weird and wonderful “An Unexpected Return” and the chilling “Ash, Blood and Snow. I also loved the final story “Latitude”.
Surreal, unsettling, and imaginative; Pete Sutton has a unique view and this book allows him to share his stylish and intriguing ideas with his readers. I will be looking for more from him in the future. (