Sightseeing: Selected Stories

by Andrew Smith

SIGHTSEEING is the very best of award-nominated author Andrew Smith's short fiction. All previously published in acclaimed literary journals, each story is a tour de force of narrative and characterization.
Featuring protagonists such
• a country policeman in an agonizing dilemma over a friend’s possible guilt
• a homemaker and her nostalgia for romance in a shadowy ballroom
• a sex worker’s disturbing self-discovery in the light of a client’s needs
• a tourist's astonishing revelation about herself to a complete stranger
• a war survivor's hallucinatory delirium concerning her marriage
• a female impersonator, on killing another, amused by a charge of manslaughter
and much more.
Each story is masterfully told, vividly peopled, and evocatively located.

106 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 28, 2024

About the author

Andrew Smith was born in Liverpool, England and now lives in Toronto and London. He has taken creative writing courses at the University of Toronto, and has also graduated as a graphic designer. His short fiction has appeared in some of the most repected literary magazines in North America. He has published two non-fiction books: Strangers in the Garden, an illustrated history of flowers and Highlights, an illustrated history of cannabis. He is also an award-winning travel writer. Edith’s War, his first novel, won a gold medal for fiction at the Independent Publisher's Awards in New York. His second novel, The Speech, was published by Urbane Publications in United Kingdom in October, 2016.