Deal : Short Stories

Date: 4 September, 2020

Naked Windows compassionately focuses on the fragile vulnerability of love and relationships.This book of short stories by Jim Shields is an evocative, insightful and humorous collection of tales from the landscape of life. A penetrating light is directed with sensitivity and understanding on everyday events in the lives of ordinary people. Here, Shields presents the dilemma of a girl having to deal with unrequited love: “That is my dilemma, my agony forced on me without my desiring it. Not through my fault.”In another poetic tale, images of a neighbourhood that fashioned his future are set out in bold colours: “Families...

Date: 7 August, 2020

Juan Luis woke one morning with murder on his mind; even the elderly are subject to passion. In the sleepy, Spanish town of Canos de Belleza, a tale of jealousy and betrayal unfolds in KISSES FROM THE SUN. What is the secret behind the desolate, burned-down pier? When two strangers meet on a windswept beach, one of them holds the answer. A heart-rending tragedy emerges in THE PIER. A pirate takes the secret of Captain Kidd’s treasure to his grave – or does he? Find out in the swash-buckling AS I SAILED, AS I SAILED. No one will want to...