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Inspired by the curious names of some cheap fireworks, purchased one year to celebrate Guy Fawkes Night, television writer/director Paul Olding challenged himself to write a series of short stories, based on their elaborate titles, grounded within the worlds of cosy sci-fi and cosy fantasy. Each story could be about anything, based anywhere, and employ different styles, and be set in the past, present or future. Red Beryl follows the arrival of a newborn baby with a difference. Sky Chaser is about a woman who dreams of flying. Metallic Fountain collides our world with that of the Faerie folk. Dark Space explores the attempts of three writers in a writers' room trying to come up with a story entitled 'Dark Space'. Star Drome is a toy with unexpected intergalactic connections. Night Tide is a gentle ghost story where a grandmother finally reveals a long-held secret. Dust Fall explores a grim and desolate future where humanity tries to avoid extinction. Delight reveals a science experiment that goes horribly wrong. And finally, Darling Dazzle is a story about a woman who knows she is not real.

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A delightful anthology. An oddly comforting box of treats, bursting with surprise and nostalgia Gareth David-Lloyd, Actor & Screenwriter

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Paul Olding has written two non-fiction books, The Urban Vineyard (a guide to growing grapes and making wine in your back garden) and Return to the Berber Village (retracing the 1955 Oxford University expedition to the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco). His third book, Fireworks, is his first foray into fiction, with nine short fables routed within the genres of cosy sci-fi and cosy fantasy. Paul has also written and directed over sixty films for TV, travelling the globe to document the natural world, ancient civilisations and the universe beyond, and more recently, creating a set of ambitious historical dramas, beginning with the lives of Wallis Simpson and Prince Albert, moving onto the gruesome deaths of a host of English monarchs (Royal Autopsy), and the cruel and barbaric witch trials that took place in Essex in the 16th and 17th centuries (Witches of Essex). Before television, Paul was an academic, gaining a doctorate in the calls of Australian Microhylid treefrogs from Jesus College, University of Oxford. When he's not writing or making films, Paul can be found on his vineyard in East Sussex, called Wildwood Vineyard, or dressed up on a Hollywood movie set as a Supporting Artist. He lives in South East London with his wife, and their two sons

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