Ben Moor
More Trees To Climb
BEN-3with an introduction by Stewart Lee
It's with great joy that we have been able to snag a few copies of Ben Moor's lovely book for you all. It's a beautiful object - both to hold and to read. And it comes with a badge.
Love, loss and competitive tree-climbing are preoccupying the hero of 'Coelacanth'. This is a boy-meets-girl story with a twist, a tumble, several daring somersaults from the branches, and the discovery that love - like the coelacanth fish that was thought to be extinct - can lurk in the very darkest depths.
In 'Not Everything Is Significant', we meet a biographer who is suffering from writers' block and a footnoter who is a stickler for detail - together they're pondering the meaning of a diary that arrived mysteriously through the post and which appears to predict the future, prompting some very tricky questions about the nature of destiny.
Finally, in 'Supercollider for the Family' a husband and wife each face a challenge: he to build a 'supercollider' small enough for household use, she to complete a tightrope walk around the world. Their missions take us from a top-secret particle-physics lab deep underground to the vertiginous heights of a wire above a canyon, suspended like a slender silver thread between soil and sky.
Originally written for stage performance, laced with wit and bursting with imagination, these three disarming creations work a dazzling, moving magic on the page.
Media
Independent on Sunday
Sweet, wise and at times touching
The List
These are stories to sweeten your day while making it just that little bit stranger
Metro
Very funny and packed with all kinds of barmy aphorisms and asides
The Times
Further Info
128 pages