Aromabingo builds on the critical success of David Gaffney's 2006 collection Sawn-off Tales, offering yet more of Gaffney's weird and edgy ultra-shorts, plus several longer works, so you can spend even more time inside the baffling, hilarious and sometimes moving world of a David Gaffney story. Think Magnus Mills mashed with the League of Gentlemen with a jolt of Mark E. Smithery for grit, and you're nearly there. Though many of his stories are shorter than a Napalm Death snarl, these precision-engineered slivers of fiction leave you with the dying chords of a symphony. They are about the small people, the tiny Tardis folk with cathedrals inside them, creeping by unnoticed. These tales will have you laughing like at a Tommy Cooper video though there's something hideous gnawing at the door to get in. Be careful, a spoonful weighs a ton.
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David Gaffney lives in Manchester. He is the author of several books including Sawn-Off Tales (2006), Aromabingo (2007), Never Never (2008), The Half-Life of Songs (2010) and More Sawn-Off Tales (2013). He has written articles for the Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Prospect, and his new novel, All The Places I've Ever Lived, is due out in spring 2017. See www.davidgaffney.org.
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1. 45 REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE:
Art Movement
The Kids from Film Noir
Pretty, Ain't It?
All Mod Cons
Sniffin' Glue
Still in Box
Speaking in Pantone
Die like a Rock
Great Inventions # 1
Lucky Winner
A Good Deal
Through the Medium of Modern Dance
Great Inventions # 2
Smaller than One Eightieth the Diameter of a Human Hair
Blurred Girls
The Secret Pictures of David Cameron
The Newt Lady's Dead Now
The Life of Riley
You've Chosen to be Excited
Great Inventions # 3
Are We Romping Now?
Clown-Time is Over
The Accused Made Spider Furniture
Container Driver
Using the Facilities
When Chairs Attack
Shooting Lulu
A Feel for Format
Grockel Bashing
Cleaning up New York
Aromabingo
2. TWELVE-INCH SINGLES:
The Happiness Well
Last Chance to Turn Around
You and You Alone
Only the Stones Remain
In the Days Before Trickery
The Nineteen Seventy-Six Trouser Famine
Who reads this story will not sin
What Would Bill Hicks Do?
Mean Picking
The Last Northerner
3. LONG PLAYERS:
This is About Dixie
Finding Skerryvore
Does Anyone Care for You on a Regular Basis?
Special Pudding
Guided by Voices
Gossamer
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS