John Lonsdale

Tales from the Library: Tiny tales in two parts John Lonsdale

"Pulling our cloaks tighter against the encroaching cold, the scholar began to tell us the first of the wondrous tales she had learned from the Library."Tales from the Library is a collection of ninety-five tiny tales, each of told in an unusual two-part format."He is enjoying driving in these conditions as much as I enjoyed my one and only attempt at being a trapeze artist, back when I was undercover at Hall's circus, working the Big Top murder case."These 'Tiny tales in two parts' are short stories chronicling the adventures of an unlikely group of protagonists. "Numerous salivating mouths desperately gasped the stale air as it laboriously manoeuvred into its elevated position." Whilst at the dark edges of their world, adversaries play out centuries-long games of strategy in which humanity is just an unwitting pawn. "Deep inside the approaching warheads, the arming processes will have commenced." Different stories, from different times - together they make up the Tales from the Library...