The Pier Falls

The Pier Falls short stories, Jonathan Cape, 2016. “An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another woman is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox. A group of explorers find a cave of unimaginable size deep in the Amazon jungle. A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve.” The Gun was shortlisted for the 2013 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and won an O. Henry Prize in 2014. The title story The Pier Falls was longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award 2015. Bunny was the runner-up for the BBC National Short Story Award 2015.