Running on Ice

collected stories by Berlie Doherty, 1997

CollinsEducational Cascades. ISBN 0007114524

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Also available in paperback. Mammoth. ISBN 0749728736.

It was this: a horse trapped in the ice; a great black horse.

'Berlie Doherty is a superb writer. Her great forte is the tangle of relationships we build, threaten and sometimes destroy in our daily life. Delicate prose and sensitive, believable dialogue combine to create powerful multi-generational narratives which linger long after the story ends.'—The Scotsman

Contents:

• Owls Are Night Birds (first published in Streets Ahead, Methuen, 1989)
• Ghost Galleon (first published in Cold Feet, Hodder and Stoughton, 1985)
• Shrove Tuesday (first published in Mother’s Day, Methuen, 1992)
• Casting Off (first published in Women and Home as Mam’s Day Out, 1996)
• Summer of Ladybirds (first published in Summer of Ladybirds, Methuen, 1987)
• Sweet Caroline (first published in Heart to Heart, Mammoth, 1996)
• Hurry Please (first published in Ghostly Haunts, Pavilion Books, 1994)
• Nightmare (first published in Beware, Beware, Hamish Hamilton, 1987)

Some of these stories have also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

The Forsaken Merman and other story poems

Selected by Berlie Doherty. Illustrated by Nick Maland.

Hodder Wayland, 2000. ISBN 0 340 68998 6

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'Thank heavens for the new compact paperback edition of Berlie Doherty’s wonderful gathering of story poems.'—Times Ed.

'An attractive reminder of the power, variety and emotional range of narrative verse.'—Books for Keeps.

Contains many familiar poems such as Albert and the Lion, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Wreck of the Hesperus, and lots of story poem surprises.

Retellings

Fairy Tales, illustrated by Jane Ray. Walker Books. See the picture books section for full details.

Anthologies

Tales of Wonder and Magic, illustrated by Juan Wijngaard. Walker Books. See the picture books page for full details.

The following is a selection of some of my other short stories and where they can be found:

• Strawberry Wine, an extract, in In the Frame, edited by Rowena Edlin-White and published by Five Leaves Publications, 2006. ISBN 1-905512-09-0
• The Ghost House in Children in Need Story Collection, BBC, 2002
• The Puppet Show in Ten of the Best, ed. Wendy Cooling, Collins, 2002
• The Girl of Silver Lake in Mirrors, ed. Wendy Cooling, Collins, 2001
• Goodbye to Yonkers in Daily Telegraph Book of Contemporary Short Stories, 1995
• The Dragonosaurus in Ip Dip Sky Blue ed. Mary Hoffman, Collins Lions, 1992
• The Boy in the Garden in Best Friends ed. June Crebbin, Dent, 1990
• The Girl Who Couldn’t Walk in Tales of Wonder and Magic ed. Berlie Doherty, Walker Books
• PJ in Times Educational Supplement Autobiographical Story series, 1997
• Sandboat in Round About Six Ed. Kaye Webb, Frances Lincoln, 1992