Cassandra Parkin grew up in Hull, and now lives in East Yorkshire. Her short story collection, New World Fairy Tales (Salt Publishing, 2011), won the 2011 Scott Prize for Short Stories and her...
"The Swami Deheftner" is a literary novel that chronicles the life of Solomon Deheftner. As a young man, Deheftner achieves fame as a stage magician and escapologist, in the tradition of the...