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A Boy at Seven /
Fear and Loathing in Aspen
Author: John Bidwell
Series: First Edition
ISBN: 1-86092-022-5
John Bidwell's two satirical short story journals are loosely based on real incidents in the author's life. A Boy at Seven is set in a Jesuit boarding school in the early 1960s where some of the boys, fed up with their hateful and sadistic Prefect of Discipline, Father John Kilbracken, hatch a plan to humiliate him in front of all. In Fear and Loathing in Aspen, the author observes the strange behaviour of Americans at the famous Colorado skiing resort of Aspen and follows one of them, a hairy billionaire called Abe Fineblown, on a gung-ho shooting mission to Kenya.

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Title: Cormack's Black Monday /
Gerald's Day Off /
Fat Boy Billy Rules the Middle Lane
Author: Daniel Etessami
Series: First Edition
ISBN: 1-86092-039-X
Born in Tehran in 1972, the brilliant young writer Daniel Etessami was brought up in Germany before moving to London. The three extraordinary stories published here share a common theme – obsessiveness. In the first, Cormack aspires to become an international business tycoon; in the second, Gerald strives to come to terms with his addiction to timetables; while, in the final story, Fat Boy Billy risks life and limb to maintain control at his local swimming pool.

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Title:

The Young Man who Discovered the Secret of Life /
The Snobs /
The Pearly Shadow

Author: Muriel Spark
Series: First Edition
ISBN: 1-86092-015-2
The Snobs The Pearly Shadow A relationship between a young man and the ghost that haunts his bedroom forms the basis of this brilliant, symbolic little story by Muriel Spark. It is published here, for the first time, in the Travelman First Edition Series. The Snobs is likewise a satire with a twist; set in a French chateau owned by a modest couple under threat of invasion from a pair of castle-crawling snobs. The Pearly Shadow deftly resumes the spirit theme of the first story. Dame Muriel is an honoured member of the Travelman Short Stories Editorial Board.

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Title: The Summer Visitor
Author: William Trevor
Series: First Edition
ISBN: 1-86092-041-1
Every September for thirteen years Guy has taken Monsieur and Madame Buissonnet out to dinner at M. Perdreau's delicious hotel-restaurant; but this occasion is different from all the others. Guy will never be able to forget what happened on this particular night and (maybe), if he is lucky, Monsieur and Madame Buissonnet will never know. William Trevor, one of the most distinguished short story writers of our modern age has written this remarkable and moving tale for Travelman Short Story Editions. He is an honoured member of the Travelman Editorial Board.

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Title: A Perfect Day
Author: Teresa Waugh
Series: First Edition
ISBN: 1-86092-030-6
Teresa Waugh, the celebrated novelist, has written many beautifully crafted short-stories. In this, A Perfect Day, written especially for the Travelman First Edition series, Ellis, a seemingly ordinary man, is killed in a car crash. Celia, his twin sister, comes to the funeral and is visited by a flood of haunting memories which reveal the extraordinarily breathless tale of her brother's life and the effect that he, and his wicked ways, had on her own peculiar past. Teresa Waugh's latest novel A Friend Like Harvey is published by Gollancz in June 1999.

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