Nigel Jarrett is a former daily-newspaperman and a double prizewinner: the Rhys Davies award for short fiction and the inaugural Templar Shorts award. His first collection of stories, Funderland, was warmly reviewed in the Independent, the Guardian, and the Times. He is also the author of a poetry collection, a novel, and two other story collections. This year, his latest collection, Five Go To Switzerland & Other Stories, will be published by the Chaffinch Press, Dublin. His work is included in the two-volume anthology of 20th- and 21st-century Welsh short fiction. He lives in Monmouthshire.
She postponed looking at her grandmother till last, dwelling on all that surrounded the coffin, all that was familiar to her: a polished harmonium smelling of sawdust; a Bible, the edge of its closed pages broad-brushed in gold; twenty-five black-bordered cards of condolence; a vase of chrysanthemums, and a thrusting Amaryllis in a world…
