A celebration in short stories of what makes London the city it is: the landmarks are there but it is the people who make the city, and the stories, work.Irreverent, dark, laugh out loud, London Lies is a roller coaster of a book with as many faces as the City it describes. But when all is said and done, every one of the authors is a liar... From the mean streets of Hackney to sleepy South London suburbs, from boho Bloomsbury to City wine bars, London Lies is a tour of the capital as you've never seen it before. What happens when a girl on her way to work is propositioned by a frog? When a man breaks into London Zoo to fight a hippo? When nuclear bombs fall on a future London, when the rats rise up to rule us or - most terrifying of all - when Scrabble goes bad? Moving from 1930s Camden to a Royal Wedding "riot", via football fights, office steeplechases and awkward dates in art galleries London Lies is a bizarre, funny, moving and sometimes unnerving glimpse into the secret life of the city we all love and know - or do we? Featuring nineteen writers who have been showcased at London's Liars' League, the live literary event.

London Lies: Urban Tales from Liars' League

Literature & Fiction

McCormick, Alan

Short Stories & Anthologies

Arachne

Liars' League teams up with Arachne Press for a second outing bringing the freshness, wit, imagination and passion of their authors to a wider audience. This book is designed expressly for romantic cynics and cynical romantics. Be careful who catches you reading it - your intentions might be misinterpreted. Join us as we wallow in the many facets of relationships. Explore role-play gone wrong, goldfish that eat loneliness, and a very literal leap into the unknown. Old love, cold love, true love, new love, dead love, we're through love - making babies and making whoopee, disappointment and contentment, playing at home, playing away or just playing; missed chances and new romances: everything from first conversation to last breath, strange journeys and stranger destinations.

Lovers' Lies

Sandling, Clare

Dramas & Plays

Originally published twenty years ago, the sixteen short stories in Mosaic of Air reflect and explore Lesbian life in the 1980s through myth, history, fantasy and science fiction. Delving into lecturing spiders, Helen of Troy, seaside libraries, computers that fall in love, murder and memory; but most of all humour, and a delight in all that women can be. Praise for the first edition: Cherry Potts writes with economy, punch, panache. - Ellen Galford Definitely about women in space, not the usual glossy tomboys of standard sf. - Gwyneth Jones Delightful ... both a hilarious spoof of one-man-and-his computer myths such as 2001, a Space Odyssey; and a reflection on the limits of love and power. - Zoë Fairbairns

Mosaic of Air: Short Stories

Potts, Cherry

WINNER of Saboteur 2014 - Best AnthologyThere's something about Liars' League that brings out the wildness in the writers' imaginations. Here we explore myth, fantasy, science fiction, and the indefinable what the - that makes up Weird. In true Liars' League fashion there is as much humour as there is darkness and poignancy. More than twenty tales, varying in style from stories not out of place in One Thousand and One Nights, to the completely bemusing.  Discover mirrors that predict the immediate future and museums where your personal future life is exhibited in the kind of ephemeral objects that might normally find their way into a dustbin. Meet tadpoles, lazy assassins, and assiduous poisoners; observe deals with the devil, and workplace stress taken to its logical conclusion. Heroes, villains, and animals - anything and anyone could provide the twist in the tale - cursed travellers, persistent dreamers, aliens, robots and even ice might be the object, or source, of love.  Stories from: Alan Graham, Alex Smith, Angela Trevithick, Andrew Lloyd Jones, Barry McKinley, C.T.Kingston, Christopher Samuels, David McGrath, David Malone, David Mildon, Derek Ivan Webster, Ellen O'Neill, James Smyth, Jonathan Pinnock, Joshan Esfandiari Martin, Lee Reynoldson, Lennart Lundh, Maria Kyle, Nichol Wilmor,      Peng Shepherd, Rebecca J Payne, Richard Meredith, Richard Smyth, Tom McKay

Weird Lies: Science Fiction, Fantasy & Strange Stories from Liars' League (Old English Edition)

Mildon, David

Literary

Solstice Shorts: Sixteen Stories About Time

When and where will you buy your apartment? (Korean Edition)

Joon-seop (April) Shin

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