When an out-of-work actor discovers his bedsit once belonged to an obscure, suicidal painter, he turns his talents to re-creating the ultimate site-specific performance…
As a teenage girl drifts from depression into a permanent state of sleep, she becomes the focus of both scientific interest and an unexpected, cult following...
Against a backdrop of hooliganism and hostility, an asylum seeker writes letters home assuring his family how welcoming England is...
Many of the characters in Martyn Bedford’s stories find themselves at a point of redefinition, trading in their old identity for something new. Whether it is an act of retreat or escape – fantasising about storming out of a thankless job, or just avoiding a bad-tempered husband for a few moments on Christmas day – they each understand the first step in changing a reality, is to reconstruct it.
- ISBN13 9781905583751
- Publish Date 16 November 2017
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Comma Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English