The Learned GooseThe Learned Goose is a collection preoccupied with storytelling and the search for answers, often in surprising and ill considered places. The learned goose was a genuine 18th century touring sensation: a goose that could predict the future, tell time and read you like a book. The learned goose is oxymoronic in nature; geese are considered silly creatures, regulars in fairytales and rich pickings for derogatory idioms and expressions, and yet here we

She was the winner of the first prize in the 1999 Commonwealth Short Story Competition and a prize of £2

He seeks solace in his father’s nurses

Feathering the Dark

‘Spring 1946’

intelligent and experimental

he journey’s north into the newly named county of Lancashire

Jean O’Brien is originally from Dublin

Bernard Howells

Hugo Claus

instantly recognisable musical personality

and a bizarre chess set which is leading him

an enthralling