Screwtop Thompson
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Screwtop Thompson, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Magnus Mills
' third collection of short stories
, brings together ten short tales that "trundle gently between the ordinary, absurd and the outright surreal." Often tagged as the "bus driver novelist", Mills writes short stories described as "solid, crafted from deceptively simple sentences and concerning simple characters trying to achieve simple goals, which makes their sudden flights of fancy all the more unexpected."
Magnus Mills
- Background :Magnus Mills was born in Birmingham and brought up in Bristol. After graduating with an economics degree from Wolverhampton Polytechnic, he started a masters degree at the University of Warwick but dropped out before completion....
' third collection of short stories
Short Stories
Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...
, brings together ten short tales that "trundle gently between the ordinary, absurd and the outright surreal." Often tagged as the "bus driver novelist", Mills writes short stories described as "solid, crafted from deceptively simple sentences and concerning simple characters trying to achieve simple goals, which makes their sudden flights of fancy all the more unexpected."