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The Man Who Loved Typewriters

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Author: Neil Leadbeater
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9788182539532
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Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2022
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Price: $15
 
 

In this fascinating collection, Neil Leadbeater’s characters are united by a need to make sense of the world – or, failing that, to manipulate it in a way that they can live with. Lawnmower racing offers one possibility; so does becoming Van Gogh’s muse in a nameless art gallery or crafting bespoke scarecrows. In some stories, distance and destination exert a hypnotic effect. The end of the line might bring Cockfosters or Nowhere-in-Particular, both exerting an inscrutable appeal. Here is a cast of marginal people, condemned to (or freely choosing) life on the edge – if not beyond. Schooldays figure in several stories: that pocket world where the strangeness of life is first rehearsed. Throughout, the reader is taken on journeys they could never expect, down by-ways that make their own sense and have no need of any other. These pages are filled with memorable richness.

-Michael W. Thomas, poet and fiction-writer, author of 
Under Smoky Light and Sing Ho! Stout Cortez: Novellas and Stories.

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Neil Leadbeater

 

 

Neil Leadbeater is an author, essayist, poet and critic living in Edinburgh, Scotland. His short stories, articles and poems have been published widely in anthologies and journals both at home and abroad. His publications include Hoarding Conkers at Hailes Abbey (Littoral Press, England, 2010), Librettos for the Black Madonna (White Adder Press, Scotland, 2011); The Worcester Fragments (Original Plus, England, 2013); The Loveliest Vein of Our Lives (Poetry Space, England, 2014), The Fragility of Moths (Bibliotheca Universalis, Romania, 2014), Sleeve Notes (Bibliotheca Universalis, Romania, 2016), Finding the River Horse, (Littoral Press, England, 2018) and Punching Cork Stoppers (Original Plus, England, 2018). He is a regular reviewer for several journals including Galatea Resurrects (A Poetry Engagement) (USA), The Halo Halo Review (USA), Contemporary Literary Review India (India) and Write Out Loud (UK). He is a member of the Federation of Writers (Scotland) and his work has been translated into several languages including Dutch, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish.


 
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