An A-Z of Possible Worlds

A.C.Tillyer

Welcome to the A-Z of possible worlds. Discover an archipelago where an entire race are burying themselves alive, and watch a city of idealists try to build the perfect ship. Visit a golf course where only robots can play, an orbital road that lures motorists to their death, and a rail network where passengers can get lost forever.

List of Ingredients: 26 individually packaged stories, each seasoned with the unexpected and the absurd.

Praise for ‘An A-Z of Possible Worlds’

Canary Wharf and City Magazine

“The Ideal Literary Gift, a real treat for Book Lovers”

The Literateur Magazine

“It’s fantastic and well worth the money”

Sebastian Beaumont, author of Thirteen.

: A.C Tillyer

“A collection of unusual words of mystery, melancholy and imagination, full of enticing glimpses into the more bizarre corners of the human psyche”

Tama Janowitz, author of They is us

“Charmingly inventive”

Warwick Collins, author of Gents and The Sonnets.

“ The outstanding feature of the set is the quality of writing, which succeeds in evoking Borges and Kafka while at the same time remaining thoroughly contemporary. !”

Caroline Smailes, author of In Search of Adam

“Delectable, unexpected and refreshingly bizarre. A.C Tillyer is a writer to be taken seriously.”

Sarah Salway, author of Something Beginning with

“Like Tardis, each of these little stories travels into the much bigger world of the imagination – sometimes sad, sometimes funny, sometimes warped, but always worth the journey.”

Charles Lambert, author of Little Monsters

“Bristling with intelligence and invention, often drily hilarious and occasionally chilling, this collection of interconnected stories is both a joy to read and the most appealing and effective primer of political thought I’ve come across for some time. Each small tale is both a parable and a perfectly realized world; taken together they turn into reflecting facets of a single world, that of Tillyer’s remarkable imagination, irreducible to mere allegory, a world that contains bog-people and multi-storey car parks without embarrassment. Echoes of writers as diverse as Swift and Tolkien, Borges and Magnus Mills, only reinforce the originality of Tillyer’s take on how we live – and fail to live – together. An impressive and thought-provoking collection by someone who deserves to be widely-read.”

Scott Pack, review on blog Me and My Big Mouth

“A remarkable thing. A boxed set of 26 separately bound short stories, one for each letter of the alphabet, all set in imagined, disturbing, fantastical, Kafka-esque worlds. BS Johnson, Borges and Franz fans should rejoice.”

About A.C. Tillyer (Author):

Anne’s inspiration for writing An A-Z of Possible Worlds came from being stuck on trains. As a daughter of trainspotter, she grew up spending a copious amount of time on trains and began to wonder what the other passengers were like and where they lived. As ideas emerged Anne would capture them in novella form and soon she become absorbed in these make-believe ‘countries’. From this the design for An A-Z of Possible Worlds grew, fitting with the timetables and maps associated with travelling and train journeys.

Anne’s background is largely in film and she has an HND in Audio Visual Design from Central Manchester College and an MA in Film Studies from the University of Westminster. Anne found her inspiration from the early Soviet silent films and from that discovered her talent for editing. Some of the programmes which Anne has worked on as a film editor include ‘The Great Nazi Cash Swindle’ which aired on Channel 4, the story of how a group of Jewish prisoners survived the Holocaust by assisting the Nazis in forging British currency, and a BBC 2 programme called ‘Darcey Bussell: Britain’s Ballerina’ which was a bio-documentary looking at her career which was broadcast on Christmas Day.

Hear Anne’s word on Wordia .com