Elephants and Bindweed

Can sex in the Architectural Ceramics Room of the V&A change your life? Just what is hiding down the side alleys of Venice? Should adults use the swings in the playground? Memories float through these 19 stories, some welcome, some feared, merging the worlds of reality and imagination. Childhood in Kenya, the terrors of US Customs, active service in Iraq, imaginary dancing on clouds - all find a place in this book of short stories that will spin you through time and place.Funny, mysterious, sad, ghostly and wistful, this collection will take the reader on intriguing journeys in the company of the dreamers, the desperate, the hopeful, the misled and the confused.Phil Lawder is a poet and novelist, a storyteller and chronicler of the undertows and quiet desperations just below the ordinary.