News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop

• home
• browse books
• book details:

The Real Louise and Other Stories

by Ailsa Cox - £9.99  Headland Publications (2009)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781902096575 | ISBN 10: 1902096576

The Real Louise brings together a selection of new and published stories by Ailsa Cox. Some are love stories; others deal with family relationships or characters coming to terms with conflicting identities. All of them are rooted in the modern city and the multiple voices of contemporary experience.

"...Brilliantly detailed, intimate, and often darkly funny. Set in Manchester and Liverpool, they build a sense of the city from its interlocking human lives. Her characters inhabit a kind of fractured time where moments of action spiral into moments of consciousness through memory and anticipation. What results is a compelling tissue of actual experience and virtual connection. She shows us the city as a locus for action, but also as an emotional collective, infinitely complex and finely textured. What is remarkable about her work is the way it explores and invokes the immensity of the everyday."
(Graham Mort)

"Ailsa Cox's stories play upon the way that the sinister lies just hidden from view: a grandmother who may be a killer from the long past, a driving lesson that suggests a whole life unravelling into paranoia. And the painful despair and emptiness coming from the pauses of everyday conversations. Borges-like, these are stories within stories, where the smallest anecdote gives way to another tale behind it - Cox mesmerises you with her deceptively amiable style - and then bites. The miniature made big, frighteningly big: this is what short stories should be."
(Robert Shearman)

(Price & availability last checked: October 2018)

Order by email

×

The Real Louise and Other Stories - by Ailsa Cox

Please fill in the order form, & we will reply as soon as we can to confirm your order & tell you how long it will take. Choose between collection from our bookshop or mail-order, for which we charge postage at cost, at current Royal Mail rates

Select type of order: Collect & pay in the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send me a card payment link Mail-order - I will pay another way & give details in the notes section

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (required for order as back-up contact method):

Please check carefully that you have entered your phone number correctly.

Please fill out this field.

Notes (optional - for additional message or information about your order):

Close

Enquire about this book

×

The Real Louise and Other Stories

by Ailsa Cox

Your name:

Please fill out this field.

Your email address

Please check carefully that you have entered your email correctly

Please fill out this field.

Your phone number (optional):

Your message:

Please fill out this field.

(optional) If you are interested in ordering this book, would your order be for collection or mail-order? Select type of order : Collect from the shop - I live in or can visit Liverpool Mail-order - send by post

Close

In booklists: Fiction - Local Writers & Local Interest, Short Story Collections and Novellas,
In categories: Fiction, Local Interest,