top 10 in its category at Amazon
A world where islands of rock float on a molten sea, 
a
man whose son flies high while he can only watch, a seaside town held together
by the belief of its inhabitants. Eight stories about strange changes and the
strangely changed, each with a new afterword by the author of Publishers
Weekly starred novels Genetopia and The Accord. Includes new
story "The Horseman of Two Torrents, or..."
Free fiction samples and purchasing:
...amazon.com (Kindle format, $2.99)
...amazon.co.uk
(Kindle format, £1.99)
'I have read "Beside the Sea" perhaps four or five times since its
original publication... It's a magical fantasy, a parable in the form of a rite-of-passage
story, both frightening and bizarre... It's a story I come back to again and
again, and one which I wish I had written myself - and there can be no greater
recommendation than that.'
--Eric Brown
'It is wiser about youth and imagination than most other novels published today;
and everybody, of whatever age, should read it...'
--Adam Roberts on The Unlikely World of Faraway Frankie
'Brooke is a master story teller... another great collection from Keith Brooke, a writer who deserves wider recognition. I'd recommend it highly.'
--reader review at Amazon UK
contents:
Witness
Queen of the Burn Plain
Riding the Serpent's Back
The Horseman of Two Torrents, or...
The Domegame and Mr P
Memesis
The Art of Self-Abuse (free sample: complete story available online)
Beside the Sea
Cover by Debbie Nicholson.
Published December 2010