Sedley Proctor, Tony Henderson, M T Sands

Ten Naughty Stories (eBook, ePUB)

And One Long One

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Is it acceptable to have sex when your husband can't watch? When does neighbourly affection go too far? No matter how charming you are, do you think you can get away with anything? What would you do if you see a monster in the ring? If you are always waiting for the right one, will you wait for ever or sacrifice yourself on the altar of never? Can you keep your dignity when things get out of hand? Is your father always right? Beg, borrow or steal, is it worth it for a deal? When revenge is a dish, is it best served hot or cold? Are you really good at what you do best, or is it time to admit you should be told? - Be wary of those who are led by their stomach…

The unexpected, the cruel, the frightening and the absurd, M.T. Sands teases and delights with Ten Naughty Stories that makes us reconsider our human foibles and frailties.

From the M T Sands Interview

(As Told to Kurt Brown)

"I always had such a wonderful time in the bazaars. You know I once hid in a carpet shop."

"Darling, I merely record. I don't judge or criticise. It's so ghastly when everyone starts wagging their fingers. And shouting each other down. I must say, I don't like all that shouty writing that's telling you what to think or do. We have to make up our minds about that ourselves, don't we?"

"Sometimes one has to do what one has to do, especially to take one's mind off one's predicament."

We talk to MT Sands about her life on the road, her love of the bazaar; her writings and affairs, but not her diet or beauty tips.

We meet in Belton House of the Braceless Country Estate, Lincolnshire - very kindly made available by her new boyfriend, the horse-mad Sheik, Ali Al-Buti. "No relation to the terror family," I am told as I am ushered into the Nineteenth Century Salon. "He's been so terribly sweet but rather shy and retiring on a Saturday morning. Would you care for something to drink? - A cup of tea. Lapsang Souchong. Gunpowder Tea, there's bergamot in it, hits you like the charge of the light brigades. If you prefer coffee, there's instant, or Sainsbury's own brand espresso."

All this comes tumbling out before I have time to scribble in my notebook. "You're not taping me. Don't tell me you are one of those gentlemen of the press who still knows how to do short-hand. I always wanted to learn, though I have to content myself with the phonetic alphabet and the schwa. You do know the schwa," she says. "It's everywhere in the English language."

M.T. Sands ers at me and rolls her eyes. Then, as if this is still part of the joke, feigns death throes.

"What about that drink?"

"I think I'll just have a glass of water," I say.

"Still or sparkling."

"From the tap is fine."

(To be cont'd)

Read more of Kurt Brown's Interview with M.T. Sands in Ten Naughty Stories, also available in paperback.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Leopard Publishing Ventures Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 78
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780995708549
• Artikelnr.: 56810892

Autorenporträt

Sedley was born in Poole, Dorset and grew up in West London where visits to the local library instilled in him a life-long love of books. Sedley always loved writing and English. In fact, when he was eleven, he began a historical novel, now lost to posterity, but, if memory serves, in the style of Henry Treece and Ronald Welch. At school in Winchester he started to dream about a writing career, and was even lucky enough to win a prize for a short story, the title of which he has now forgotten. For some reason, however, the final line sticks in his mind. "Was it a living or waking dream? - No, she must be dead." After a brief flirtation with archaeology, he studied English at Nottingham University where he was tutored, for a term, by the Northern Irish poet, Tom Paulin. In the 1990s, he worked in fringe theatre and was involved in productions of Macbeth and Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities. His own play, Salt Lake Psycho about the notorious murderer, Gary Gilmore was put on at the now defunct Man in the Moon theatre in Chelsea. Salt Lake Psycho was directed by Sean Holmes, current associate artistic director at Shakespeare's Globe. For the best part of two decades, Sedley lived and worked as a teacher and translator in Southern Italy. Here he collaborated with French writer, Claude Albanese on the screenplay of Dirty Waters. Dirty Waters, which is a political thriller, written with Italian blood, English sweat and French tears, received a commendation at the 2003 Montpellier Festival. In Italy Sedley continued to experiment with his writing, devising an invented dialect for a novel about a young female brigand of the Risorgimento. He also experimented with performance poetry, accompanying local blues band, Big Daddy Lawman on their tours of Apulian taverns, churches and bars. Returning to Britain in 2013, Sedley wrote The Half Days (2015), an ex-pat adventure set in Southern Italy. He struck up a writing partnership with Tony Henderson. Together they quickly published two books: Over & Under i (2015) and Over & Under ii (2016), a series of naughty tales, inspired by the tales of the Arabian Nights. The Over & Under Series has subsequently morphed into the Naughty Stories Series. The first in this series, Ten Naughty Stories was published in 2019 under the pen name, M. T. Sands. Sedley has also published the sequel to The Half Days under the title, Accidental Death of a Terrorist. Accidental Death of a Terrorist (2019) is the second part of the Mezzogiorno Trilogy. Sedley and Tony have written a children's book, The Wolf Garden, under the alias F. M. Frites: A Totally, Completely, and Utterly Bodacious Adventure with Unicorns and Gnomes.