Author Interview with Christopher Johnson
In our Author Interview with Christopher Johnson we discover the inspiration for his short stories set in Cornwall
In our Author Interview with Christopher Johnson we discover the inspiration for his short stories set in Cornwall
Christopher Johnson is a writer of Short Story fiction, set in North Cornwall. He has written 5 Collections and an Audio Book.
Sea Fret by Ben French is an historical adventure set in a Cornish fishing village. This short story features in Cornwall Beneath and Beyond.
Anita Hunt has published her first novel ‘Behind the Curtain’, written Memory Sessions, is a published poet and published theatre reviewer
Lou Bergin has never been short of ideas for a story, with family and friends ever wary they will turn up on her page.
Up Frogs by Ross james is about a young boy who grows up too soon when the closure of South Crofty tin mine causes his world to collapse.
Claudia Loveland writes short Cornish storiesthat explore the experiences of newcomers and returners: those who want to lose their history or redesign their future.
“Welcome to Cornwall – the one you might not know about” was hilarious and yet sensitively pried open the darker side of second homes, the closure of Crofty and living four miles from the sea in Camborne, Pool and Redruth but never having visited or even seen it.
Rob Bonser-Wilton is researching the Porthpean Giffard family double homicide of 1952/3. Was or was not Miles Giffard insane?
Cornwall Secret and Hidden book review by Linda Camidge: well-paced and assured reveals often notable for physicality and visual strength
The Cornwall Secret and Hidden book review by Gray Lightfoot gives an overview of the short stories and a deeper dive into his favourites.
Beats of a modern Jazz solo, somehow finding a scattered rhythm, the edges of blades cutting into the earth. Starting out of sequence, the order somehow switching back on itself, finding its beginning, and, as the thud thud thud chopped about the trees, the three of them cut down through roots and earth, heaping nature’s spoils to the side.