Pugnacious Little Trolls by Rob Mimpriss
‘Bathed in white fire in every sense… Borges would happily own them.’ Gee Williams
‘Freely and fiercely inventive short stories… supercharged with ideas’ Jon Gower, Nation.Cymru
Add to CartRob Mimpriss is the author of Reasoning: Twenty Stories, For His Warriors: Thirty Stories, Prayer at the End: Twenty-Three Stories and Pugnacious Little Trolls; the editor of Dangerous Asylums, an anthology of fiction by Gee Williams, Glenda Beagan, Carys Bray and others, commissioned by the North Wales Mental Health Research Project; and a contributor to Land of Change, an anthology of Welsh radical prose forthcoming from Culture Matters, and to Brush With Fate, an anthology of short fiction by Tristan Hughes, Rachel Trezise, Nigel Jarrett and others in Arabic translation by Hala Salah Eldin Hussein. He has reviewed for New Welsh Review, published criticism of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford and Robert Olmstead, and translated prose by Gwenallt Jones, Angharad Tomos and Manon Steffan Ros. His translations of Morgan Llwyd, Owen Wynne Jones and Richard Hughes Williams are also published by Cockatrice. He is a Member of the Welsh Academy.
‘Bathed in white fire in every sense… Borges would happily own them.’ Gee Williams
‘Freely and fiercely inventive short stories… supercharged with ideas’ Jon Gower, Nation.Cymru
Add to Cart‘Heaving with loss, regret, and familial bonds.’ Annexe Magazine
‘Quietly written, contemplative... whose powerhouse is the depth of its moral reflection.’ Siân Preece
Add to Cart‘A rare kind of joy… a wonderful collection.’ Prof. Graëme Harper, Editor, New Writing
‘I recommend it. Highly. It feels to me already a classic.’ Fiona Owen, editor, Scintilla
Add to Cart‘A quiet writer with a loud voice... I'll be listening for more.’ Michael Nobbs, gwales.com
‘An understated fiction of compelling intensity.’ Prof M Wynn Thomas
Paperback‘Lucid, skilful, and above all, of enormous timely relevance.’ Jim Perrin
Add to Cart‘An invaluable translation.’ Angharad Price
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