Early Novels and Short Fiction

by Peter Cowlam

Overview

*Early Novels and Short Fiction* is the first of three volumes covering Peter Cowlam’s adventures into fiction, dating from the mid-1970s and into the twenty-first century. *Early Novels and Short Fiction* covers the period from 1974 to 1998 (approximately), and opens with *Penumbra*, a collection of short stories, which is followed by the novels and novellas *The Border and Back*, *Bim Shay*, a re-imagining of the detective yarn, *Electric Letters Z*, a satire on literary celebrity, first published in 1998, which under the title *Who’s Afraid of the Booker Prize?* won the Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction in 2015, and *Caliban’s Machine*, the memoir of George du Plé, a young English poet in American exile.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940165919473
Publisher:	CentreHouse Press
Publication date:	08/15/2022
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Peter Cowlam is a writer and critic. His brief stint as a commissioning editor saw two issues of *The Finger*, a journal of politics, literature and culture. His last novel, *Who’s Afraid of the Booker Prize?*, won the 2015 Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction. His latest novel, *Across the Rebel Network*, was longlisted for the Guardian 2015 Not the Booker Prize. Poems forthcoming in *Fulcrum*. Poems and short stories have appeared in *The Galway Review*, *The Battersea Review*, *Literary Matters*, *The Brown Boat*, *The Criterion*, *Valparaiso Fiction Review*, *The Four Quarters Magazine*, *Ink, Sweat & Tears*, *The Liberal*, *Horizon Review* and *Epicentre Magazine*.