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Dancing With Angels: And Other Short Stories
	Author: Gary Morecambe Foreword by: Angela Rippon OBE Classification: Fiction/Short Stories Sorry this book is Out Of Print	Brief Description: In this wonderfully eclectic mix of deliciously intriguing short stories the reader will be transported to a myriad of settings, both ordinary and exotic, in which nothing is ever quite what it seems and anticipated conclusions to every thought-provoking journey are likely to lead readers down a dead-end path, with a fascinating and unseen twist waiting in ambush. The fascinating events described are able to turn certainty into uncertainty, reduce meticulously made plans to dust, vaporise hopes and dreams and transform life into death with the inaudible and inexorable click of fate’s fingers, each gem etching an unforgettable signature in one’s memory. Every human life appears as though a play scripted by fate, but whether it is a tragedy, mystery, comedy, love or horror story, how many scenes and acts are contained therein, the number of pages before ‘The End’ and the character parts involved remain a guarded secret whose revelation is the privilege of time alone.

Special Note: This book is now out of print.

About the Author: Gary Morecambe is the son of the comedian Eric Morecambe. He was born in London in 1956. After several years as a publicist for a leading theatrical agency, he became a full-time writer in 1982 and has published over twenty titles ranging from biography to fiction. Recently he was consultant to Kenneth Branagh's West End and Broadway smash hit The Play What I Wrote. He is currently engaged in working on a film script adaptation of his late father's novel Mr lonely.

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Publication Date:	26 October 2008
ISBN: ISBN 13:	1-906358-12-5 978-1-906358-12-9
Page Extent:	168
Book Size:	210x148mm
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-- Reviews by the Famous and well Known

Dag Hammarskjold, arguably the finest ever UN Secretary General, once wrote “Do not seek death. Death will find you”. A prophetic thought considering the mysterious circumstances surrounding his own death in a plane crash in 1961 But with that thought in mind, I suspect he would have enjoyed this latest collection of short stories from Gary Morecambe. For death, and its search for victims, is a theme running through them. From warn torn France, to sunny Portugal, the suburbs of London to the Cornish coastline, death (or is it retribution?) arrives in a variety of guises and never leaves empty handed.
In a way I find it difficult to imagine Gary sitting at his computer weaving dark diabolical plots around his finely observed and often complex characters. Because for me the name Morecambe is synonymous with his comic genius of a father, Eric. With his essential ‘other half’, Ernie Wise , Eric and Ern, or Morecambe and Wise remain for me and millions of others , the finest comic duo of the past century. Morecambe means laughter and slapstick comedy. It means horn rimmed glasses and catching imaginary missiles in brown paper bags. Promoting Luton Town football club at every opportunity, and referring to everyone from Elton John and Shirley Bassey to Andre Previn and Glenda Jackson as Sunshine. Oh what memories, and what a tough act to follow.
Wisely, Gary who grew up listening to the one liners and the manic laughter, has not even tried to emulate his dad on the comedy circuit. Instead he’s employed his inherited genes for entertaining in the arena of storytelling, and to one of the most exacting disciplines for any writer – short stories.
So we meet the British agent dropped into German occupied France on a mission to eliminate an enemy – with a difference. The assassin facing his own mortality, and the youth whose besotted love dies on the vine. The cautionary tale of how life’s plans and expectations can be wiped out in a moment of murderous mayhem, and the chilling observations on the creeping inevitability of old age, and the death of youth.
There’s an old English proverb which says “Death always comes too early or too late”. In this collection it comes perfectly timed – just like one of Eric’s one liners.
Angela Rippon OBE, Television Journalist - Written the Foreword

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A dilapidated old caravan out in the sticks does not, at least ostensibly, provide the ideal setting for a horror story, and truth to tell I’m not sure whether Dancing with Angels really is a horror story, as in a strange sort of way it has a happy ending.
Dancing with Angels is an incredibly short story. In fact it’s so short almost any review will sabotage the entire plot, so I’ll refrain; however, I can make a few well-chosen remarks.
Depending on how you approach this tale, you can draw markedly different things from it. It contains a tragic death, which makes it sad, but it also bears witness to a glorious resurrection that gives us hope. Reggie Appleby wants – nay, needs – an audience. He finds one not far from his caravan home, but pays an awful price. Comedians often wonder what it’s like to die on stage. Reggie can, quite literally, tell you.
Mike Hallowell, The Shields Gazette

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Gary Morecambe was interviewed on City Talk 105.9 FM. Gary answered questions about his book 'Dancing With Angels'. He was interviewed on 'The Trisha Goddard Show'.
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Gary Morecambe was interviewed on Bristol Community Radio 93.2 FM. Gary answered questions about his book 'Dancing With Angels'.
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Gary Morecambe was interviewed on Lionheart Radio 107.3 FM. Gary answered questions about his book 'Dancing With Angels' on 'The Hayden Parker Show'.
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25 October 2008 - Gary Morecambe was interviewed on Hope 90.1 FM. Gary answered questions about his book 'Dancing With Angels' on 'The Geneen Crossley Show'.
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Gary Morecambe was interviewed on Wythenshawe 97.2 FM. Gary answered questions about his book 'Dancing With Angels' on 'The Mike George Show'.
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Gary Morecambe was interviewed on English Breakfast Radio 99.4 FM (Holland). Gary answered questions about his book 'Dancing With Angels'.
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Gary Morecambe was interviewed on Hope 90.1 FM. Gary answered questions about his book 'Dancing With Angels' on 'The Christine Pollard Show'.
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Gary Morecambe was interviewed on BBC Hereford & Worcester 104 FM. Gary answered questions about his book 'Dancing With Angels'.
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Gary Morecambe was interviewed on Chorley 102.8 FM. Gary answered questions about his book 'Dancing With Angels' on 'The Trevor Cooke Show'.
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Gary Morecambe was interviewed on 7 Waves Community Radio 92.1 FM. Gary answered questions about his book 'Dancing With Angels' on 'The Cath Bore Show'.
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-- Readers Comments

A great book, I really enjoyed it.
Gail Marchant
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This book is good, because it consists of many short stories, every story is different and you can take them in, unlike some books with long stories which consist of 700 or more pages, and you can not read it right through at one sitting having other things to do, so by the time you get to the end you’ve forgotten the beginning. The author has done well with each story, enjoyable with them being different.
Doris Ford
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The Bodleian Library, Oxford
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The University Library, Cambridge
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The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
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The National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
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The Library of Trinity College, Dublin
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The British Library, Boston Spa
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