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A review by amandar9fa2f
Disturbing the Beast by Cheryl Powell, Nici West, Aliya Whiteley, Rosie Garland, Lorraine Wilson, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Sam Mills, Kirsty Logan, C.A. Steed, Jane Alexander
4.0
An anthology of weird fiction on the theme of women-centred issues.
Contributors include some of the best British female writers in the genre today, including Kirsty Logan, Rosie Garland and Aliya Whiteley.
The short stories range in tone from the fairytale/folklore style of Logan's Girls are Always Hungry When All the Men are Bite-Sized, the quirky-cosy humour of How to Knit a Husband by Cheryl Powell; the mythological Andromeda (Sam Mills), and the quietly unsettling The Losses by C A Steed.
Standouts for me:
This is not Forgiveness (Lorraine Wilson) - the fallout from recent African history
Dolly (Jane Alexander) - questioning the ethics of cloning
Wrapped (Aliya Whiteley) - my absolute favouritewhich looks at how women - in this case an Egyptologist, but you could read scientists, academics, artists, writers...have so often been written out of history .
Oh! And I love the cover too, by Mancunian tattooist, illustrator and author, Hannah Mosley.
Contributors include some of the best British female writers in the genre today, including Kirsty Logan, Rosie Garland and Aliya Whiteley.
The short stories range in tone from the fairytale/folklore style of Logan's Girls are Always Hungry When All the Men are Bite-Sized, the quirky-cosy humour of How to Knit a Husband by Cheryl Powell; the mythological Andromeda (Sam Mills), and the quietly unsettling The Losses by C A Steed.
Standouts for me:
This is not Forgiveness (Lorraine Wilson) - the fallout from recent African history
Dolly (Jane Alexander) - questioning the ethics of cloning
Wrapped (Aliya Whiteley) - my absolute favourite
Oh! And I love the cover too, by Mancunian tattooist, illustrator and author, Hannah Mosley.