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the golden helm: more tales from the edge of sleep by victoria randall

10/1/2018

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Short Stories are often the inspiration for novels and in The Golden Helm: More Tales From the Edge of Sleep, Victoria Randall has brought us an eclectic collection of tales built around sleep and dreaming. This is the theme that links the stories together, but the stories themselves are as wide and as varied as the imagination. Randall brings us tales as diverse as a journey back to the time of Christ in a time machine to offer Mary, Mother of Jesus, a parenting choice, in "Parenthood by Choice Inc. Invests in a Time Machine, through to a story of Aliens visiting the local library looking for information on Earth's defence systems, in Incident in the Library. In total the author has brought us twelve tales from The Realms on the Edge of Sleep, some long, some short, but all of them satisfying.
 
I think, as a reader, it is too easy to get caught up in the idea of reading full-length novels and it is wonderful, from time to time, to take a break and read some short stories, especially ones as well written as these in The Golden Helm: More Tales From the Edge of Sleep. As in any collection or anthology, there are some stories that spoke to me and warmed my heart more than others, but I can say each of them in this wonderful collection have something interesting and worthy of being said. My personal favourites are a little difficult to choose, but I was definitely taken by The Unicorn in the Garden, which I found to be extremely descriptively evocative and beautiful in its simplicity. Equally, the title story, The Golden Helm was sweet and rewarding. This whole collection is well worth the read and as I haven't read Victoria Randall before, I am sure I will be in the future. I must investigate her earlier Tales From the Edge of Sleep. An excellent collection of stories to be kept by the bedside for reading and rereading.      

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Be sure to pop on over to Amazon and check out The Golden Helm and indeed Victoria Randall's full portfolio of offerings. 

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Chris Rose link
14/1/2018 21:33:22

Rereading is right. All good books should make you want to read them again. Great stuff.

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Grant Leishman
15/1/2018 17:58:04

Cheers Chris - have to agree wholeheartedly with you on that one.

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