Winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2011.
From the balmy heat of Africa to the snowbound dales of northern England, this is an assured and absorbing short-story collection. Including the Bridport prize-winning story 'The Prince', Touch spans twenty years of short-story writing from author and poet Graham Mort. Be it a young child adrift on an ice-filled lake, or an ageing farmer facing life alone, these twenty-one stories display a deep sensitivity to both the natural world and human relationships. In skilfully crafted prose, vivid with detail, Mort examines the strength and fragility of life and the ties that hold us within it. "I chose 'The Prince'... because the writing is word-perfect... with the story quietly remarking on how something out of the ordinary both does and doesn't affect daily life.... I was enchanted..."