Riptide Short Stories with an Undercurrent

A collection of fifteen new short stories by both established and emerging authors, with an introduction by Joanne Harris. The book includes an uplifting new tale set in the troubled West Bank from Michael Morpurgo, a powerful and disturbing portrayal of killing and sacrifice in north Africa from novelist Sean Burke and an absurdist story featuring sausages from prize-winning poet Luke Kennard. The book also contains Jane Feaver's outrageous take on landladies and lodgers and Jean Rafferty's shocking exposure of a child's hopes for a new life dashed. Open the pages of Riptide Volume 2 and you could find yourself sailing across the Atlantic with a smuggled baby, or joy-riding in South Wales, or trying to avoid becoming another victim inside C Block. This diverse and wide-ranging collection takes the reader on a momentous, sometimes funny, sometimes heart-breaking journey. The different stories complement each other and build up to an intriguing and balanced whole that leaves you wanting more.