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Author · Storyteller
Isaac Burke
@isaacburke
Writer interested in literary fiction, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Isaac Burke is a literary fiction writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
The interesting part usually begins where the easy answer stops.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Isaac Burke
On the writing desk
Currently creating
Early draft
The Quiet Catalogue
In postwar Gloucester, a cautious archivist is sent to sort the neglected records of a riverside library that is due to be closed and dispersed. As she works through donation slips, missing loans and half-forgotten marginal notes, she begins to uncover a local history that has been edited rather than simply lost.
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Draft progress
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