New writers for the new millennium. A showcase for previously unpublished fiction writers based in the Greater London area, also including specially commissioned stories by Pauline Melville, Courttia Newland, Ardashir Vakil, Erica Wagner and William Sutcliffe, successful London-based writers.
This anthology puts them together, loosely based around the theme of rites of spring, or new beginnings.
A middle-aged woman goes bungee-jumping and frees herself from the past. Georges Melies, the French cinema pioneer, sees a magic show in nineteenth-century London which changes his life forever. A young woman prepares herself for a blind date. An old man is humiliated and, acknowledging the death of a long-held dream, exacts revenge.
