Böcker av Peter Bayley

The eclectic short story collection for the discerning reader.What kind of short stories do you like to read?Science Fiction? Crime thrillers? Ghost stories? Spy stories? Something psychological?If you enjoy reading short stories that have something distinctive about them, whatever the genre, then you're holding the right book. Do you like a twist in the tale? To be stimulated by the unexpected and to be surprised by a conclusion that you didn't see coming? If you're happy to be introduced to any kind of compelling narrator - maybe not a human one -you'll find a favourite here. Sometimes you may have your own vivid recollection of the place and time in which the story is set. There's variety of both among these stories - from Peru now, to Jupiter's moons in a far future. I'm sure you like to learn something along the way, too. You might even realise that you have absorbed a life-lesson or a grain of truth.When you select and read one story from this outstanding collection, you may find it difficult not to move directly onto the next.

In 1940s New York, a nurse struggles to survive an abusive, mixed-race relationship. In 1960s San Francisco, the hippy dream begins to sour as a mysterious stranger shadows a young entrepreneur's life. In contemporary Sicily, a witness to murder complicates his life by falling for the perpetrator. What is strongest, teenage gang culture or ex-army bonding? Tenerife in the Canary Islands is the for a dangerous obssession with fire. And in an imaagined post-Covid-19 England, a collection of strangers are thrown together to decide what to do with their pandemic-blighted lives.These and more short fictional stories were each inspired by a rock, pop or blues song. The music prompted the author's imagination to create the fictional characters, their lives and adventures in tales set The favourite and inspirational tracks are all included in the Spotify SOUNDTRACKS playlist linked to the book.

This 1980 text was the first full-length study of seventeenth-century pulpit oratory since 1863, and the first to treat both Catholic and Protestant preaching.