Deep Blue Sea
by Peter Hobbs
Peter Hobbs grew up in Cornwall and Yorkshire, and lives in London. The Short Day Dying, his first novel, won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
He has also published a collection of short stories, I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train (Faber, 2006), from which 'Deep Blue Sea' is taken. One of his stories was included in Picador’s New Writing 13 anthology (2005), edited by Ali Smith and Toby Litt.
Peter has recently been reading the following collections, from which he particularly recommends:
'Charlie in the House of Rue' from Robert Coover's A Night at the Movies (Dalkey Archive Press, US)
The title story from Tom Bissell's God Lives in St Petersburg(Faber)
'Hanalei Bay' from Haruki Murakami's Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (Harvill Secker)
The title story from Claire Keegan's Antarctica (Faber)
'Deep Blue Sea' is reproduced by kind permission of the author.
Peter Hobbs is published by Faber
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