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Rose Biggin is a writer and performer based in London who has long been delighting readers 'in the know' with beautifully crafted stories. This, her debut collection, demonstrates why; as fine a mix of otherworldly fantasy and artful mysteries as any reader could wish for. Featuring the author's best stories to date, Make-Believe and Artifice showcases fifteen fictions drawn from the past decade, each a diversion to savour. ""Effervescent, artful and joyfully mischievous, Make Believe and Artifice dances with the reader at every page. Rose Biggin is a fabulous writer."" - E.J. Swift ""From her uncanny perspective into known worlds to her ability to fashion her own, Rose is undeniably one of the most fascinating - most unabashedly creative - voices in literature today."" - Jared Shurin in his Introduction Contents: Introduction by Jared Shurin Chanticleer and the Peacock The Gunman Who Came in from the Door The Modjeska Waltz A Map to Camelot The Ghost of Cock Lane The New Woman Miss Scarlett A Game Proposition The Chandelier Bid (with Keir Cooper) Golden Girl The Tartest of Flavours The Diamond Twenty Thousand Times Bigger than the Ritz Mrs Pepper's Ghost Helen/Hermione The Arousing Adventures of Gelato Parlour

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