Shorts 4: the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Collection

Shorts: The Macallan "Scotland on Sunday" Short Story Collection #4

by Michel Faber (Editor), Dorothy Alexander (Contributor), Sophie Cooke (Contributor)

Ever since the nineteenth-century when Romanticists threw down the literary gauntlet of the modern short story, its popularity has never waned with writers and readers alike. In this volume, Polygon, The Macallan, and Scotland on Sunday are pleased to offer the very best of contemporary Scottish story writing selected from more than 2,000 entries to the 2001 Macallan / Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition, including the winner, the five other shortlisted stories, and the best of the remaining entries. Selections include: "The Incomprehensible Mortality of Karen Mack, " by Sophie Cooke; "A Storm Gathering, " by Jonathan Falla; "Mango, " by Fiona J. Thackeray; and "Clear Thunder, " by Alan Bissett.

259 pages, Paperback

First published September 15, 2002

About the author

Michel Faber (born 13 April 1960) is a Dutch writer of English-language fiction.

Faber was born in The Hague, The Netherlands. He and his parents emigrated to Australia in 1967. He attended primary and secondary school in the Melbourne suburbs of Boronia and Bayswater, then attended the University of Melbourne, studying Dutch, philosophy, rhetoric, English language (a course involving translation and criticism of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English texts) and English literature. He graduated in 1980. He worked as a cleaner and at various other casual jobs, before training as a nurse at Marrickville and Western Suburbs hospitals in Sydney. He nursed until the mid-1990s. In 1993 he, his second wife and family emigrated to Scotland, where they still reside.