A simple act of gallantry in the Malaysian jungle spawns a lifelong feud in the Home Counties...
A fading actor with a terminal illness devises a meticulous plan to leave the stage in style...
A pregnant composer contemplates motherhood at the end of civilisation...
Spanning centuries and continents, the stories in this collection amount to a tour de force of literary worldbuilding. From deeply insecure time travellers to medieval mystics and futuristic body modification cults, Norminton's characters find themselves torn between conflicting impulses - temptation and fortitude, hubris and shame, longing and regret. By turns sad, strange and darkly comic, The Ghost Who Bled reveals a master storyteller of incredible range.
"Witty, intelligent, crunchily written, Norminton's collection is pure reading pleasure." - Neel Mukherjee (Booker-shortlisted author of The Lives of Others)
'"All the doors of the imagination are open to Gregory Norminton, the author of micro-fictions and exuberantly long novels; this collection roves magnificently from one side of the world to the other, bringing together people and their predicaments as only its author can. Read it and be transported, too." - Michael Caines (The TLS)
"Gregory Norminton's tautly written, mordant short stories make the reader sit up and think. Startlingly original imagery and that rare thing, moral and political bite." - Maggie Gee
