They Do Things Differently There

Select your readers carefully for this challengingly imaginative collection of densely layered short stories. Language, concepts and humour are sophisticated: invention runs energetically riot. Compton Rosehay 'overlays' the two villages from which it takes its name: it exists as an alternative reality, sharing time and space with its ancient progenitor. Within this 'double dimension' Jan Mark creates a cast of improbable characters who amaze and entertain from first to last. They most certainly 'do things differently there'. Lovers of wit and shrewd observation, read on.