Leslie Garland
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| Title | : | The Red Grouse Tales (The Red Grouse Tales) |
| Author | : | Leslie Garland |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 343 pages |
| Published | : | September 2019 by Leslie W P Garland |
| Categories | : | Epic |
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The Little Dog and other stories. Comprising four very different adult, speculative, spiritual and philosophical novellas to intrigue, entertain and and keep you guessing. The Little Dog – a story of good and evil and retribution. Bill, a retired forester, recounts a week in his early working life when he was paired with an unsavoury workmate. This commences with them finding a little domestic dog sitting beside a forest haul-road way out in a remote part of the forest, but what is a little dog doing in such an unlikely location? As the week goes on it becomes increasingly uncomfortable, the little dog disappears, events take an unexpected turn and our young troubled and naive Bill starts to learn some awful truths. The Golden Tup - a dreadful tale of paradise being cruelly taken by latent evil. This tale opens with the shocking news that a nice young couple have killed their new born baby. How could they have done such a dreadful thing? Our narrator, Verity, recalls how the pair bought an old derelict farmhouse and commenced renovating it; creating their own paradise. However, their felling an old tree changed everything. The Crow - a poignant tale of misunderstanding, dying, bitterness and blame. As a child, David, is taken to a hospice by his mother where he finds himself listening to an increasingly mad tale told by a dying and embittered old Irish priest. But why do the old priest’s recollections of the school days and subsequent rise of a local councillor become so increasingly bizarre and bitter? The White Hart - a happy ghost story, if there can be such a thing! What might connect a chance encounter with a little albino deer, an equally unexpected meeting with a beautiful, but somewhat enigmatic young girl in a remote chapel, and a third, just as strange an incident, on a windswept hillside? Pete Montague, relates a redemptive, adult, speculative, spiritual and philosophical happy ghost story - if there can be such a thing! (Warning to sensitive readers; some tales do contain a tiny bit of bad language and references to sex)Mention Books As The Red Grouse Tales (The Red Grouse Tales)
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Red Grouse Tales |
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Ratings: 4.33 From 347 Users | 24 ReviewsComment On Epithetical Books The Red Grouse Tales (The Red Grouse Tales)
I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review and that is how I landed up on it. The Red Grouse Tales is a collection of four short stories that are interesting and worthwhile to read.The Red Grouse Tales is an interesting book for those who like to read short stories of thriller genre. It would have been more interesting and engaging to read, had the writing style been a bit simpler.You may read the full book review here The Red Grouse Tales by Leslie W.P.I would have liked to give this five stars but haven't for the simple reason, the story began too slowly. In fact I almost gave up reading due to that. Thankfully - I didn't because now that I have read it all, it certain is well worth continuing. I also felt in the beginning that this was a man's tale, and narrated in the way the male descriptive way.I wanted Bill to insist on Blackman stopping on the truck on way home to take the little dog with them. However, almost by the end of the
I was born in 1949, qualified as a Chartered Civil Engineer and worked for several years on projects in the UK, the Far East and Africa. During this period I won the Institution of Civil Engineers Miller Prize for a paper on tunnelling. Changing times resulted in a change in direction and after qualifying as an Associate Member of both the British Institute of Professional Photography and the
Related as stories told between friends in the Red Grouse pub, each of these tales has a thread of the paranormal and philosophy running through them, to varying degrees. There are four stories to enjoy (I have also reviewed each of these separately in depth)The Little Dog is the story of a forester who is forced to work with a much disliked colleague for a week. Each day is tense and stressful, but is Blackman just unsociable or actually evil?The Crow focuses on a local politician, generally
This is a collection of a good mix of short stories. The Crow The Crow takes place in The Red Grouse Inn where a group of friends meet on Thursdays for a few pints and sharing stories. This story is told from two different perspectives. Father Patrick and David, one of the regulars.Reginald Monday aka The Crow is so poor that he is bullied by those more fortunate than him. Father Patrick sees something in him and takes him under his wings. The bullies resent his talents and continue with their
It was such a treat to read The Red Grouse Tales by Leslie W.P. Garland. The four short stories within this novel are thoroughly engaging contemporary allegories. I love John Miltons Paradise Lost, thus I was delighted by how deftly Garland interweaves the well-known archangels into these modern-day tales. The Red Grouse Tales consists of the most well-done and effective frame narratives I have come across in contemporary pieces of literature. Even more to Garlands credit, I never considered the
Are we all born innocent, or are people born that way? Born evil? A quote from the first story, but seems to carry though the restThe stories are well thought out. Three of the stories are well written. I did have some trouble with The Crow. It had a lot to do with the dialect. Although endearing at first, it became hard to follow with it being written out how the accent would sound. Sometimes its easier to explain how the person speaks vs writing words out like that. Show vs tell comes to
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