The Body in the Mobile Library and Other Stories

2024 book by Peter Bradshaw
1785633902OCLC218657Preceded byNight Of Triumph 

The Body in the Mobile Library and Other Stories is a 2024 collection of short stories by author and critic Peter Bradshaw.[1]

Writing

The Body in the Mobile Library and Other Stories is a collection of twenty-one darkly humorous and macabre stories, often with a poignant, or absurdist, or nightmarish theme. Many of the stories were previously broadcast on BBC Radio 4 or published in Esquire.

Reception

Tommy Gilhooly in the Literary Review said the collection is "mischievous, often raunchy and always teetering on perversity".[2]

Emma Beddington in The Spectator called one story "compellingly gruesome" and wrote: "Bradshaw relishes the grotesque and improbable; his set-ups are outrageously inventive" but that "characters are sympathetically drawn and their longings, insecurities, vanities and weaknesses feel all too credible."[3]

References

  1. ^ Fraser, Katie (9 October 2023). "Lightning strikes for Bradshaw's short story collection". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2024-05-05.
  2. ^ Gilhooly, Tommy (1 May 2024). "Your Passcode Or Your Life". Literary Review. Literary Review . p. 58. Retrieved 1 May 2024.
  3. ^ Beddington, Emma (20 April 2024). "Grotesque vignettes". The Spectator. Press Holdings. p. 32. Retrieved 20 April 2024.