The Peacock Cloak by Chris Beckett
A new short story collection from Edge Hill Prize winning author Chris Beckett, containing previously uncollected stories.Chris Beckett became a social worker in the 1980s and spent 18 years working in the field, first as a social worker, then as a manager, and finally as the manager of a children and families social work team. He began his career as a 'generic' social worker, working with a variety of service users including children and families, the elderly, and persons with mental health difficulties and disabilities, but his primary focus was on children and families. He went into academic social work in 2000, first at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and then at the University of Cambridge. He has written academic publications on a number of themes, including the use of military terminology in social work, the value of realism as an ethical concept, and statistics from Sweden on child abuse in the aftermath of the country's legal ban on physical punishment. Chris has a side career as a writer of literary science fiction. His main research field, however, has been decision-making in court processes involving children, as well as decision-making regarding children in general. (For more information on Chris Beckett's writing, go to www.chris-beckett.com.) He won the Edge Hill Short Fiction Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for his story collection The Turing Test.
For his novel Dark Eden, he received the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He currently works full-time as a writer. Chris believes that 'academic' and 'artistic' writing have more in common than might appear at first glance: in both cases, the author starts with a tangle of ideas that appear to be linked in some way, and strives to impose some shape and organization, in large part by a combination of intuition and trial and error.Chris has three grown children and lives in Cambridge with his wife Maggi.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781907069499 |
| ISBN 10 | 1907069496 |
| Title | The Peacock Cloak |
| Author | Chris Beckett |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | NewCon Press |
| Year published | 2013-02-15 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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