Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Robert Shearman
Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical, Robert Shearman
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Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical

Author: Robert Shearman

Narrator: India Fisher, Jane Goddard, Toby Hadoke

Unabridged: 3 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2011


Synopsis

The first love song in the world, as composed by a pig in the Garden of Eden. The Devil, alarmed when his hobby of writing romantic fiction begins to upstage his day job. Hearts kept in Tupperware boxes, small countries that vanish from the European mainland overnight, and a kidnapper who gets more than he bargained for when his victim associates him with George Clooney. It could only be Robert Shearman's 'Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical'. Six stories of the comic and the frightening and the downright weird, taken from his multi-award winning short story collection.

Love Among the Lobelias performed by Toby Hadoke
Luxembourg performed by Jane Goddard
Pang performed by Toby Hadoke
George Clooney's Moustache performed by India Fisher
Sweet Nothings performed by Jane Goddard
One Last Love Song performed by India Fisher

WINNER OF THE READERS' AWARD IN THE EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY SHORT STORY COMPETITION!

Reviews

Goodreads review by MJ on May 18, 2014

The stories in this collection use fiendish or fantastical conceits to emphasise the various vicissitudes of love that occur in our rude vicissitudinous lives. The prose herein is free from baubles (i.e. the writer isn’t straining to show his devastating cleverness and quick wit and slick phrasemaki......more

Goodreads review by Consuelo on August 11, 2020

Una colección de cuentos sobre el amor, desde un punto de vista muy particular. Y uno de ellos contiene la autocrítica más despiadada que he leído. Los relatos rezuman mucha ironía, un poco de mala leche y bastante ternura a pesar de todo. Muy recomendable, para románticos empedernidos (puede funcio......more

Goodreads review by Borja on September 10, 2020

Una colección de relatos con el amor como nexo común súper interesante. Una calidad media notable y muchos muy chulos. Una pena que la edición esté llena de problemas ortotipográficos de todo tipo. Un buen par de pasadas le hubieran venido que ni pintadas.......more

Goodreads review by Libros Prohibidos on December 07, 2020

Canciones de amor para tímidos y cínicos está dedicado al amor, aunque sea un sentimiento frío, apagado, de relaciones longevas en las que el tiempo, la rutina y la convivencia han desgastado (cuando no directamente erosionado) ese amor, si es que alguna vez lo hubo. Pues esa es la sensación que tra......more

Goodreads review by Cate on August 25, 2011

Marvellous... of course. I did not expect otherwise. I now want to make a small nation disappear.......more