COLLAGES: Twenty-one short stories and novel extracts showcase new talent from The Complete Creative Writing Course. Covering a wide variety of genres - literary, historical, crime, science fiction - and set in continents ranging from America, Africa and Asia to Europe including the UK, these stories reflect an enormous diversity of themes and styles. From coming of age in 1960s England, through a circus trapeze artists' last show, a Sri Lankan childhood and a family reunion in Costa Rica to post-apocalyptic London, these stories form a fascinating collage of inventiveness and imagination.