David Gaffney

• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction
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David Gaffney's compact, surreal tales are filled with poignancy and wit. Each story goes off like a tiny depth charge in the mind, leaving you with the trace memory of some new urban myth - comic, absurd and disturbingly true....

• Sep-2008
• / Psychological Suspense
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Eric is 29, a debt counselor, and his life is a lie. When he's not busy getting the debt of the dispossessed of West Cumbria's written off, he's bouncing the cost of his increasingly excessive lifestyle between several unsavory accounts. His girlfrie...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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Aromabingo is the much aniticipated sequel to Gaffney's highly-acclaimed 'Sawn-off Tales', offering yet more weird, edgy, ultra-short stories, together with several longer ones - the perfect opportunity to spend more time inside the baffling, hilario...

• Jan-2010
• / General Fiction
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Succinct in length and vast in imagination, Gaffney's micro stories are bizarre and witty slices of condensed reality. Frequently hilarious and often poignant, they leave an after taste that is resonant, dark and clingy. They sometimes seem to glow f...

• Nov-2016
• / General Fiction
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In stories that are laugh out loud funny, cringingly weird and desperately sad., Gaffney introduces the possibility of momentary actions that change everything; a swimming man sees a hundred glass eyes at the bottom of a river; a broken vase cause...

• Feb-2017
• / Thriller
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Fifteen-year-old Barry Dyer wakes up one day to find his body covered in strange metallic blisters and he can't imagine what is wrong with him. This is West Cumbria. Nothing ever happens here. But when he discovers that a teenage girl from his school...

• Feb-2018
• / General Fiction
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British comedy blended with universal regret, this darkly funny graphic novel, using surreal yet beautiful visions, explores the ways we remain haunted by our ex-lovers.

Valerie has a rich interior life. Serially unlucky in love, to feel bet...

• Sep-2021
• / Graphic Novel
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Three ordinary weirdos, one recurring dream. The acclaimed minds behind The Three Rooms in Valerie's Head return with a whimsical and ambitious portrait of human connection in the age of digital fragmentation.You meet the strangest people on the inte...

• Jul-2023
• / General Fiction
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The countryside – what is it for? A paradise on earth where you can relax and get creative? Or an outdoor wool factory where every other house is an Airbnb and there are fewer trees than Camden. In his new collection of short stories David Gaff...