Felicity Dowker
The debut collection by award-winning Felicity Dowker, collecting 15 extraordinary tales.
Introduction by Trent Jamieson.
"These stories make for a showcase volume ... it amply demonstrates that fantasy fiction down under is in good hands." - Interzone
Colin Steele at The Canberra Times has reviewed Felicity Dowker's Bread and Circuses. Like us, he thinks it's a fabulous collection, and we're extremely chuffed to read
"Melbourne-based author, Felicity Dowker begins her collection of fifteen stories with the award-winning ‘Bread and Circuses’, involving an unusual feminist zombie evolution. Dowker believes that writing horror is “a way to set wrong things right”. Certainly, many of the stories, accompanied by Dowker’s background footnotes, involve retribution, particularly from a female perspective .‘Us, After the House Came Back’ sees revenge and solace for the wife in an abused relationship, while “the bad guy” has it coming in spades in the ultimately gory, ‘The Female of the Species is More Deadly Than the Male’. Dowker’s evocative stories benefit from the stylish production of enterprising Western Australian small press Ticonderoga."
Check out The Canberra Times for other great reviews. (Review appeared a little while ago so we've reprinted it in full here.)
You can (and really should) buy a copy of this fantastic collection directly from us at http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=118
Felicity Dowker will be signing copies of Bread and Circuses this Saturday at Notions Unlimited Bookshop in Melbourne.
When: 13 october, 4-7pm
Where: Notions Unlimited Bookshop, Shop 9, 426 Nepean Highway Chelsea 3196
Felicity Dowker's fantastic story "Bread and Circuses" has been podcast at Tales to Terrify.
The incredible zombie tale was first published in Scary Kisses, edited by Liz Grzyb; and is the title story to Felicity's awesome collection Bread and Circuses.
We recommend you check them all out.
The Tales to Terrify podcast can be heard here: http://talestoterrify.com/tales-to-terrify-no-28-felicity-dowker/
Buy Felicity Dowker's Bread and Circuses collection here: http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=118
Buy Scary Kisses here: http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=90
The wonderful Peter Tennant reviews two TP titles in the latest issue of Interzone, including Felicity Dowker's amazing collection Bread and Circuses. We're unreservedly happy when he concludes:
"These stories and six others make for a showcase volume ... it amply demonstrates that fantasy fiction down under is in good hands.."
Buy issue 242 of this impressive publication to read the full review here http://ttapress.com/1397/interzone-242/
Bread and Circuses is available in tradepaperback $25 http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=118
Limited hardcover edition signed by Dowker and Trent Jamieson $75 http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=119
Felicity Dowker's Bread and Circuses collection is reviewed by Damien Smith at The Specusphere. He says many positive things, and we're especially happy to read
I get the feeling Dowker is building her own canon of nightmares invading our world.
You can read the full review at http://www.specusphere.com/book-reviews/bread-a-circuses-by-felicity-dowker.html
Ticonderoga Publications
21st Century Australian Speculative Fiction
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