The Black Dreams: Strange stories from Northern Ireland

I don’t recall if I saw my first gunman in my childhood nightmares or on my childhood streets.

There were plenty in both and they looked very much like each other.

So begins Reggie Chamberlain-King’s introduction to The Black Dreams, a thrilling and compelling collection of specially commissioned stories that explore the emotional geography of growing up and living in Northern Ireland.

The fourteen stories gathered here criss-cross coast, border and city as they map a ‘strange’ territory...