Frank Cottrell Boyce
Frank Cottrell Boyce is a novelist and screenwriter. His film credits include Welcome to Sarajevo, Hilary and Jackie, Code 46, 24 Hour Party People and A Cock and Bull Story. In 2004, his debut novel Millions won the Carnegie Medal and was shortlisted for The Guardian Children’s Fiction Award. He has sinced published two more, Framed and Cosmic,
both with Macmillan. He also writes for the theatre and was the author
of the highly acclaimed BBC film God on Trial. He has previously
contributed stories to Comma’s anthologies Phobic, The Book of Liverpool, The New Uncanny, and When It Changed.
Frank on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in March 2010: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rd4ds
Anthologies featuring Frank Cottrell Boyce
Protest: Stories of Resistance
The paperback edition of our bestselling anthology of British protest inspired short stories.
The Book of Liverpool
Bringing together fiction from some of the city’s most celebrated writers, The Book of Liverpool traces the unique contours that decades of social and economic change can impress on a city.
Morphologies
Covering a century of writing that arguably saw all the major short forms emerge, from Hawthorne's 'Twice Told Tales' to Kafka's modernist nightmares, these essays offer new and unique inroads into classic texts, both for the literature student and aspiring writer.
Beta-Life
Short stories from an A-Life Future, inspired by the vway we interact with technology, the roles we adopt in an increasingly ‘intelligent’ environment, and how we interface with each other.
Lemistry
British and Polish novelists join screenwriters, poets, computer engineers, and artists, to celebrate and explore Lem’s legacy through short stories and essays.
The New Uncanny
14 leading authors have here been challenged to write fresh fictional interpretations of what the uncanny might mean in the 21st century, to update Freud’s famous checklist of what gives us the creeps, and to give the hulking canon of uncanny fiction a shot in the arm, a shock to the neck-bolts...
When It Changed
When It Changed is an attempt to put authors and scientists back in touch with each other, to re-introduce research ideas with literary concerns, and to re-forge the alloy that once made SF great.
Phobic: Modern Horror Stories
Phobic shines a torch into the unlit areas of the modern subconscious and suggests the more we know, the more we realise how worried we really should be.
Protest: Stories of Resistance
This book asks 20 authors and 20 historians to bring crucial moments of British protest to life.
Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science
This anthology draws out and distills science’s love of narrative from a wide range of scientific disciplines, weaving theory into very human stories, and delving into the humanity of theorists and experimenters as they stood on the brink of momentous discoveries.
Collections edited by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Gusev and other stories
Ten of the best Chekhov stories specially selected by the acclaimed author and critic Frank Cottrell Boyce who also provides a critical essay.