Mortality
An amateur goalkeeper is frozen solid in a moment of ecstasy as he makes his perfect save. A young man finds himself drawn into the auto-erotic asphyxiation fantasies of his deceased uncle. Two men hunt the elusive Scottish wildcat, one of them a cuckold, the other his cuckolder. A photographer navigates the rapids of London’s fashion-media elite and struggles to remain afloat in a sea of drugs.
From Amsterdam to deepest Devon, from Naples to New York, and from all corners of London to Manchester's Northern Quarter, these stories feature a parade of mad women, male neurotics, lovesick morticians, frustrated pizza waiters, and psychotic serial killers. Like a funnier Ian McEwan or a kinder Will Self, Nicholas Royle’s tales are skewed vignettes of the way we live now.
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Nicholas Royle
Nicholas Royle is the author of two previous collections, Mortality and Ornithology, as well as In Camera (with David Gledhill). His seven novels include The Director’s Cut, Antwerp, and First Novel. Reader in Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, he is head judge of the annual Manchester Fiction Prize and series editor of Best British Short Stories. He also runs Nightjar Press, publishing original short stories in chapbook format.
Novels
- Counterparts (1993)
- Saxophone Dreams (1996)
- The Matter of the Heart (1997)
- The Director's Cut (2000)
- Antwerp (2004)
- The Appetite (2008)
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