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Melvin Burgess

New work of all sorts - short stories, novels, essays.

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Wayland Smith

I still remember them, every one. Mother, father, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles, cousins. And beyond them, the tribe. The tribe was everything. We were not high born - a common lot, my lot. But my family were craftsmen and women, ever...

4 days ago

Wayland the Smith

Those of you familiar with my work will know of my two Norse novels Bloodtide and Bloodsong, and also perhaps of my adult novel Loki. The norse myths and legends are things I keep going back to, all the back way to the days when my dad brou...

4 days ago
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Football!!!

Football!!!

Appropriately enough for a World Cup month - this final story from the ~Congo is about football. It is my very favourite of all the stories I was told when I was over there. It’s got everything - humour, rivalry, drama, the lot...

13 days ago

Prince Tortoise

One day all the animals in the world gathered together to vote for a chef, and when all the votes were counted, the winner turned out to be the Lion – which of course made the Lion very happy. His first decree, now that he had the authority...

21 days ago
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The eagle and the Tortoise

The Tortoise and the Eagle February 23, 2014 by Melvin Burgess 1 Comment

This story was told to me in a Pygmy house, in the village of Samba on the Lulonga River, almost exactly on the Equator. The chief’s son, Bokote, a Bantu man, came th...

a month ago
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