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by Rose Biggin
		POLESTARS 11 A series of single author collections by outstanding writers. The Polestar, or North Star, is defined as the brightest star in Ursa Minor; since every author chosen for this series is a star in their own right, Polestars provides the ideal banner under which to unite such exceptional works. Rose Biggin is a novelist, an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck (University of London), a theatrical performer, a sometimes joke writer for BBC Radio 4, and a Miss Pole Dance UK finalist. Rose has long been delighting readers ‘in the know’ with beautifully crafted stories, tales that often play around with myth or classic literary concepts, using them as a springboard for her own unique imagination.  This, her debut collection, demonstrates why she is so highly regarded – as fine a mix of otherworldly fantasy and artful mysteries as any reader could wish for. Featuring the author’s best stories to date, Make-Believe and Artifice showcases fifteen fictions drawn from the past decade, each of which is a diversion to savour. Contents: Introduction by Jared Shurin                Chanticleer and the Peacock                    The Gunman Who Came in from the Door                  The Modjeska Waltz                              A Map to Camelot                                              The Ghost of Cock Lane                                              The New Woman                              Miss Scarlett                                          A Game Proposition                                          The Chandelier Bid (with Keir Cooper)                              Golden Girl                      The Tartest of Flavours                                      The Diamond Twenty Thousand Times Bigger than the Ritz Mrs Pepper’s Ghost                                Helen/Hermione                                            The Arousing Adventures of Gelato Parlour      About the Author                            “Effervescent, artful and joyfully mischievous, Make Believe and Artifice dances with the reader at every page. Rose Biggin is a fabulous writer.” –  E.J. Swift     “Rose is undeniably one of the most fascinating – most unabashedly creative – voices in literature today.” – Jared Shurin in his Introduction. “… stylish, smart, a pleasure to read and [the author] knows when to make you smile and sometimes punch you in the heart too. This is a pure delight of storytelling and an absolute pleasure to read. Very strongly recommended!” – Runalong the Shelves “An irresistible chocolate box of artful confections… we’re transported into new worlds of possibility as the shackles of tradition are shrugged off and a playful, teasing, knowing sensibility is released. By the time I had finished the collection, I felt that not only was I living in Biggin’s world but that I always had done.” – ParSec “These stories show that Rose Biggin is a clever writer who is able to conjure a story from the flimsiest initial idea and turn it into something worth reading.” – SFCrowsnest Available as a paperback, an eBook, and a special edition hardback limited to just 50 copies, each individually numbered and signed by the author.
£13.99 (Paperback) £26.99 (Signed HB LTD ED)   Published: 09/09/2025 Cat. Number: NCP350 Dimensions: A5 (5.83 × 8.27 inches) Pages: 230 pp. ISBN: 978-1-917735-04-9 Editor: Ian Whates Cover Artist: Gary Northfield Typesetter: Ian Whates Language: English Buy Paperback or Signed Hardback Limited Edition £13.99 (Paperback) £26.99 (Signed HB LTD ED) Buy Ebook

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