Fairy Tales Refocused: Different Takes on Familiar Tales - Paperback

by Lynda Dunwell (Author)

Different takes on familiar tales is an anthology of short stories with a fantasy/fairy tale theme. Award winning short story writer, Lynda Dunwell has gathered together some of her favourite tales. She has taken well-known themes of childhood fairy tales and given them a modern twist. Most are sheer fantasy like, 'The Adventures of Spiegel's Hackers', the longest of the tales which is set in the Valley where life has become elitist, computerised and is about to fall under the control of Penny Hacker, Spiegel's creator. Other tales are much shorter, pure escapism and may not have quite the happy ever after ending expected.

Author Biography

Lynda Dunwell is an award winning short story writer and historical romantic novelist. For many years the old fairy tales have fascinated her, so she decided to gather together some of the short stories she had written into this one volume. Although based in the landlocked English Midlands, she loves the seas an spends most of her vacations on cruise ships. She is a member of the UK Romantic Novelists' Association, the Historical Novel Society and the Society of Genealogists. Her family history research has been extensive, she has traced her paternal family line - the Dunwells - back to 1485. Currently she is researching her female line which she describes as far more challenging.