Speaking with the Angel

Oct 4, 2024 11:32 AM

Author:Nick Hornby

Speaking with the Angel is a collection of short stories, edited by Nick Hornby

Hear the Prime Minister explain to the House why he did a runner from Greenford Park service station and hitched a lift with a fifteen-year-old girl, as imagined by Robert Harris. Listen to someone who has a small hostile creature in his room, as told by Roddy Doyle.

Twelve voices, twelve completely new stories, narrated by twelve different characters. And all written by twelve of the most exciting and popular writers around: Robert Harris, Melissa Bank, Giles Smith, Patrick Marber, Colin Frith, Zadie Smith, Dave Eggers, Helen Fielding, Roddy Doyle, Irvine Welsh, John O'Farrell and Nick Hornby himself.

This sparkling collection has been put together by bestselling novelist Nick Hornby, who also contributes an Introduction about TreeHouse, an organisation that offers a unique and pioneering approach to the education of children with autism. £1 will go to TreeHouse with every copy sold of Speaking with the Angel.

Reviews

How does Murakami manage to make poetry while writing of contemporary life and emotions? I am weak-kneed with admiration

—— Independent on Sunday

Enchanting...intriguing... All of these tales have a wonderfully surreal quality and a hip, witty tone

—— Wall Street Journal

All the stories take place in parallel worlds not so much remote from ordinary life as hidden within its surfaces: secret alleys that afford unexpected - and unsettling - views

—— New York Times

Like the best thriller fiction, it nags you with the sensation that Something Nasty is about to happen

—— Sunday Times

Most collections of short stories work by the interplay of different voices. This one offers the more satisfying rewards of a novel: unity of tone and a richness of recurring detail that creates its own texture: spaghetti, lawns, hamburgers, beer-drinking, kid sisters, Sunday afternoons, a man's name

—— Independent

One of the most popular novelists in the world...his fiction hits a nerve... Haunted breaks new ground

—— Observer

Tóibín's deceptively straightforward style continues to manage somehow to encompass both lucidity and ambiguity, precision and poetry

—— Irish Times

Exquisite

—— Metro, Fiction of the Week

These stories are always intensely interesting and sometimes profoundly provocative

—— Irish Independent

Perfect; and as good as the best of William Trevor, than which there can be no higher praise

—— Scotsman

A blinding display of mischievous wit and excruciating humour

—— Uncut

One of the greatest short story writers alive

—— Ben Rice

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