Make-Believe and Artifice

Rose Biggin is a writer and performer based in London who has long been delighting readers 'in the know' with beautifully crafted stories. This, her debut collection, demonstrates why; as fine a mix of otherworldly fantasy and artful mysteries as any reader could wish for.

Featuring the author's best stories to date, Make-Believe and Artifice showcases fifteen fictions drawn from the past decade, each a diversion to savour.

"Effervescent, artful and joyfully mischievous, Make Believe and Artifice dances with the reader at every page. Rose Biggin is a fabulous writer."

- E.J. Swift

"From her uncanny perspective into known worlds to her ability to fashion her own, Rose is undeniably one of the most fascinating - most unabashedly creative - voices in literature today."

- Jared Shurin in his Introduction

Contents:

Introduction by Jared Shurin

Chanticleer and the Peacock

The Gunman Who Came in from the Door

The Modjeska Waltz

A Map to Camelot

The Ghost of Cock Lane

The New Woman

Miss Scarlett

A Game Proposition

The Chandelier Bid (with Keir Cooper)

Golden Girl

The Tartest of Flavours

The Diamond Twenty Thousand Times

Bigger than the Ritz

Mrs Pepper's Ghost

Helen/Hermione

The Arousing Adventures of Gelato Parlour