These short stories look at aliens in many forms; they may be bug-eyed monsters from outer space, they may be boat people washed up on a South coast beach, or they may be a westerner culturally adrift in a far-flung country. The wide-ranging anthology includes a dozen brand new tales selected by novelists Carol Clewlow and Kitty Fitzgerald, both Royal Literary Fellows.
Kitty Fitzgerald is the author of four novels and four plays for the BBC and eight theatre plays. She was a finalist (second place) in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award in 2005; received a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2005, a Time to Write Award in 2003, and a C.P. Taylor Playwriting Bursary; and won most original screenplay for the film Dream On at Le Baule Film Festival. Born in Ireland, she lives on Tyndeside.