FiN member Ailsa Cox collaborates in groundbreaking study of Alice Munro

Professor Ailsa Cox is one of the four international authors of Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books: A Suite in Four Voices, an innovative new study of the Nobel Prize Winner’s fiction. Hailed as ‘a revelatory reading of the multilayered narrative complexity which is Munro’s distinctive signature’, the book is newly published by Edinburgh University Press.

Reading Alice Munro’s Breakthrough Books: A Suite in Four Voices by J. R. ‘Tim Struthers’, Ailsa Cox, Corinne Bigot, Catherine Sheldrick Ross

PRECIPITATION
by Ailsa Cox, with images by Patricia Farrell 

Publication date: 9th January 2025

Precipitation is a collection of three stories by Ailsa Cox, two of which are published for the first time. It also features images created by the artist Patricia Farrell in response to the stories. The book is the fifth in a series of collaborations between writers and artists published by Manchester-based Cōnfingō Publishing.

Set mostly in North West England, with excursions to Wales, Paris and the Arabian desert, these stories map the inner and outer world of their characters, excavating layers of time and memory. Two of the stories take place on the fictional street of Bethel Brow, where a grandmother nurses a long-held grievance, while two young incomers live the dream of a house in the country. In the third, the thwarted ambitions of a disappointed novelist take him on an imaginary journey. Sharply observed and often darkly comic, they hinge upon those small moments that can change your life for ever – a missed train, a turn in the weather, or a puzzling encounter with a neighbour.

Available to pre-order HERE for the special price of £6 +P&P

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