Early Novels and Short Fiction

<p><em>Early Novels and Short Fiction</em> is the first of three volumes covering Peter Cowlam's adventures into fiction dating from the mid-1970s and forward into the twenty-first century. Included is the short-story collection <em>Penumbra</em> and the novella <em>The Border and Back</em>. Novels are <em>Bim Shay</em> a re-imagining of the detective yarn <em>Electric Letters Z</em> a satire on literary celebrity and <em>Caliban's Machine</em> the memoir of George du Plé a young English poet in American exile. <em>Electric Letters Z</em> was first published in 1998 which under the title <em>Who's Afraid of the Booker Prize?</em> won the Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction in 2015. Peter Cowlam won the same prize more recently recently in 2018 for his novel <em>New King Palmers</em> which is at the intersection of old crumbling empires and new digital agglomerates. He has worked as commissioning editor for <em>The Finger</em> and as literary editor for <em>Ars Notoria</em>. <em>Early Novels and Short Fiction</em> volume one of three belongs to the period circa 1974 to 1998.</p>