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Author · Storyteller
Marcus Burke
@marcusburke
Literary Fiction writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Marcus 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.
A story only works when somebody has something to lose.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Marcus Burke
On the writing desk
Currently creating
Later first draft
The Last Catalogue
When a long-standing independent bookshop in Leeds is forced to clear its stock, the woman overseeing the sale starts finding annotations, receipts and half-forgotten notes tucked inside old paperbacks. What begins as a practical job turns into a quiet reckoning with the people who used the shop as a refuge, and with her own habit of keeping life shelved rather than faced.
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