1 Go to the free material on the website ianduckworth.net
Here free comedy and short stories are available. Free!. Some short stories can be heard on podcasts read byy Ian in one take. There are also cartoons produced with the help of the cartoonist in residence Mr Dani Cumpa and various blogs/essays on a range of subjects to keep the reader amused. Oh, and did I tell you all that is free?
2 If you get as far as reading some of the free short stories it might be time to consider buying Ian’s first book of self-published short stories, Asylum. Ian’s own pick from that volume would be Akademgorodok - Little City of Academia, Berlinerluft, Hippopatamus, and Warning. If you want to test your Catalan skills out Hippopotamus translated as Hipopòtam is available in Catalan Corner, Racó Catala on the site, gratis! or free, as we say in English.
3 Now the real adventure begins, because now you want more and you’re in luck because there is more! And all purchasable through the site. If you’re someone who likes to read things in the order they were written in then that would be ‘Euphoria’, set in Bradford, Yorkshire, rather than Bradford Pennsylvania, between Christmas 1932 to June 1933, centering on the German consulate in the city during that period. Next would be the difficult second novel ‘Harmony of the World’, followed by a cracking set of three novellas - long short stories, under the title ‘The House at Cournonterral’, and finally, published by Europa Books and available through all major booksellers online sites, Waterstones, Barnes and Noble etc ‘The Snow Making Machine’, a book of brilliant structure set in contemporary Europe, more precisely set in Stockholm and the Stockholm archipelago out in the Baltic, Berlin, Girona, finishing up in Barcelona.
You may also want to Subscribe for ten euros a year to the quarterly electronic newsletter which will include a short story in each edition giving you four short stories a year for your bucks as well as everything else. You can become a subscriber by following the steps in the Subscription heading on the web site home page.
