Read With My Little Eye Online
Authors: Francis King
With My Little Eye (22 page)
NOVELS
To the Dark Tower
Never Again
An Air that Kills
The Dividing Stream
The Dark Glasses
The Firewalkers
The Widow
The Man on the Rock
The Custom House
The Last of the Pleasure Gardens
The Waves Behind the Boat
A Domestic Animal Flights
A Game of Patience
The Needle
Danny Hill
The Action
Act of Darkness
Voices in an Empty Room
The Woman Who Was God
Punishments
Visiting Cards
The Ant Colony
The One and Only
Ash on an Old Man’s Sleeve
Dead Letters
Prodigies
The Nick of Time
NOVELLAS
Frozen Music
Secret Lives
SHORT STORIES
So Hurt and Humiliated
The Japanese Umbrella
The Brighton Belle
Hard Feelings
Indirect Method
One is a Wanderer
(selected stories)
A Hand at the Shutter
The Sunlight on the Garden
POETRY
Rod of Incantation
BIOGRAPHY
E. M. Forster and his World
My Sister and Myself
The Diaries of J. R. Ackerley (editor)
TRAVEL
Introducing Greece (editor)
Japan
Florence
Florence: A Literary Companion
Also by Francis King and published by Arcadia:
Prodigies
‘Resonates with chilling and telling truth’
– Elizabeth Buchan,
Daily
Mail
‘Thoroughly modern and audacious’
– Richard Zimler,
Literary
Review’
‘Would recommend it to anyone between now and posterity who cares for adventurousness in writing as well as adventure’
– David Hughes,
Spectator
‘A compelling work lit up by poetic and heartfelt tenderness’
– Paul Binding,
Independent
on
Sunday
‘A thoroughly satisfying novel made by an expert craftsman’
– Alan Massie,
Spectator
The
Nick
of
Time
‘An up-to-the minute thriller centred on the fortunes and misfortunes of a handsome illegal immigrant … and beautifully written’
– Antonia Fraser, Books of the Year,
Mail
on
Sunday
‘Dealing with modern problems and rightly long-listed for the Man Booker. King is a writer’s writer, his voice utterly convincing’
– Beryl Bainbridge, Books of the Year,
Daily
Telegraph
‘Very much of here and now … entirely persuasive’
– Penelope Lively,
Spectator
‘King’s skill is such that, though one senses from early on that Mehmet is totally untrustworthy, the hypnotism of his charm is convincing’
– Anthony Thwaite,
Sunday
Telegraph
‘Very enjoyable and subversive, with a highly engaging hero whose bad behaviour made compulsive reading’
– Margaret Drabble
The
Sunlight
on
the
Garden
‘Seamlessly crafted with a perfect self-containment and compactness – each as complete as a nut in a shell. A beauty’
– Kate Saunders,
The
Times
‘Fairly seethes with incident … from a master of the short, sharp shock’
–
Independent
‘Sad, ironic, nostalgic and illuminating glimpses into the dark corners of people’s lives … sparing, unsentimental, controlled prose with no words wasted. These are stories of loss, rejection and angst which provoke powerful emotion’
– Carla McKay,
Daily
Mail
‘This fine collection will give pleasure to anyone with regard for the carefully crafted and cunningly contrived narrative. Here is a collection of tales which provides many subtle pleasures’
– Peter Burton,
Daily
Express
‘A miniature masterpiece, pulsating with feeling, complexity of thought, and the need to make sense of things’
–
Literary
Review
‘Every story here is good, every page a pleasure’
–
Scotsman
First published in the United Kingdom in 2007
by Arcadia Books, 15-16 Nassau Street, London, W1W 7AB
This ebook edition first published in 2011
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ISBN 978–1–908129–59–8
