With or Without Angels

Douglas Bruton is a Scottish writer of literary short stories and novellas whose work has appeared in various publications including Northwords Now, New Writing Scotland, Aestetica and The Irish Literary Review. His short stories have won several competitions, including the Fish Flash Fiction Prize and The Neil Gunn Prize.His novella Blue Postcards was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

'Experimental yet accessible, serious but playful, provocative but moving. Douglas Bruton is a writer of boundless invention' -Stephen May, author of Sell Us The Rope'a work of seriousness, empathy and beauty' -The Scotsman'With lyrical and succinct prose, Douglas Bruton writes tenderly about the quest to capture memories and understand what makes a life. His writing really stays with me' -Julie Corbin, author of A Lie For A Lie'A work of spare and brittle loveliness. With or Without Angels is a deeply moving depiction of art and the people who make it, at once visceral and restrained. I admired it enormously' -Nell Stevens, author of Briefly, A Delicious Life'This book does not leave its readers unmoved. More compelling than a biography, Douglas Bruton's narrative once again immerses us in a life that shimmers through the delicate fabrics of art. The hero of the story is an artist who can no longer hold a brush. He uses a camera to take pictures that turn into collages. Each collage modifies hazy memories and takes us to a new colorful world full of mystery, longing, and invisible angels' -Julia Nemirovskaya the editor of Disbelief: 100 Anti-War Poems