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This stylish and daring high-stakes thriller quickly strips its heroine of a future that should have been and propels her into a life skewed out of all recognition.

Winner of the Media Wales Readers' Prize 2011shortlisted for The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize 2011Four friends. One intensely hot summer that will change their lives forever.When a group of hedonistic teenagers save a woman from drowning they become unlikely local heroes, but their celebrity becomes the focus for first envy, then harassment.Fireball takes us through their last summer together, and one that will come to define their future: a summer of sex, chemical experimentation, shifting loyalties and disillusionment.

Winner of the Writers' Trust of Canada Journey PrizeWinner of the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver MedalShortlisted for Wales Book of the YearLonglisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story AwardLonglisted for the Edge Hill Short Story PrizeBurrard Inlet is the body of water that divides Vancouver's North Shore from the rest of the Lower Mainland. In this collection of award-winning stories, Tyler Keevil uses that rugged landscape as a backdrop for characters who are struggling against the elements, each other, and themselves.A search-and-rescue volunteer looks for a missing snowboarder on Christmas Eve; two brothers retreat to the woods to shoot a film in memory of their dead friend; a reclusive forestry worker picks up a hitcher on his way down Mount Seymour; a young man finds a temporary haven on the ice barge where he works.Written in a lean, muscular style, these are stories awash in blood and brine, and steeped in images of freedom and confinement. Within that narrative framework, Burrard Inlet becomes more than a geographical location: it is a liminal space, a boundary and a barrier, a threshold to be crossed.

Hometown Tales: Celebrating regional voices Two remarkable tales of life in Wales