The Whistling Licence

This unique book offers four new short stories in two separate forms. Firstly as written by Peter Mortimer and secondly as graphically interpreted by the artist Pete Shaw, thus enabling the reader a direct comparison on how one creative artist responds to the work of another. The supernatural, the surreal, and the dystopian combine in this quartet of distinctive stories

Author Biography

Peter Mortimer – poet, playwright, journalist, publisher – has lived in the North East for more than forty years, and many of his books and plays have been published and performed here. He is used to writing about difficult places: against Foreign Office advice he wandered round Yemen; he set up a children’s theatre group in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon and, over one summer, walked the length of Britain with one dog and no money, dependent on the kindness of strangers to provide accommodation and food.

Peter Mortimer’s books include: The Last of the Hunters: Life with the Fishermen in North Shields; I Married the Angel of the North (poetry); Off the Wall: the Journey of a Play; and Cool for Qat, which grew out of his commission to write a play about the 1930 Yemeni seamen’s riot in South Shields; and Camp Shatila – a Writer’s Chronicle, which grew from the two months towards the end of 2008, when he lived in Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut.