Escape Routes
‘Winsomely written and engagingly quirky' The Sunday Times
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2021
Summary
‘Stories that start like delicate webs and finish like unbreakable wire traps’
Naomi Ishiguro’s fresh, magical and delightfully speculative short story collection merges the inventiveness of David Mitchell and the fairy-tale allure of Angela Carter to form its own powerful magic.
Witness what happens when a space-obsessed child conjures up a vortex in his mother’s airing cupboard in Shearing Season. Watch unexpected possibilities open up in The Flat Roof when…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472264862 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 147226486X |
| Author: | Naomi Ishiguro |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Tinder Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
An imaginative collection full of wide eyed wonder and millennial wit * Sharlene Teo *
Escape Routes sees Ishiguro find inventive and unexpected new ways to explore her themes of freedom, flight and individuality * Netgalley Reader Review, Shelf Indulgent Reader website *
Ishiguro, daughter of the 2017 Nobel Laureate, is already being touted as a writer of rare talent herself * RTÉ Guide *
A wide-ranging speculative short story collection from a striking new voice in fiction * Rabeea Saleem, ‘Fabulous February Books Out In The UK’, BookRiot website *
All the emotional power comes from how these tired, stressed, anxious characters could be people that you pass on the street. They could be us * Chloe Walker, Culturefly website *
It’s whimsical, often melancholy tales are populated by people you feel you’ve met * Kimberley Ballard, SFX Magazine *
About The Author
Naomi Ishiguro
Naomi Ishiguro studied writing at the University of East Anglia and is a former bookseller and bibliotherapist at Mr B.’s Emporium in Bath. She lives in London.
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