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a boy in a park

Read the new collection from author Richard Parkin

Ten bittersweet fables about a boy who lives in a park. Different boys, different parks, but always the same naive rascal led astray by talking animals, charismatic strangers, and his own too vivid imagination.

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“a mesmerizing collection… I’ve never read a collection like it”
  [Long & Short Reviews]
“this is a beautiful book that deserves to be savoured slowly”
  [Dot, Goodreads]
“charming, thought-provoking, and poignant”
  [Sal, Goodreads]

A Boy in A Park Cover

Illustrations by FF Williams

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“Once there was a boy who lived in a park”

The innocent, misguided heroes in this collection wear their hearts on grubby, unwashed sleeves. They are outcasts, orphans, dreamers, longing for a better life, struggling to survive in a world caught between wonder and despair, half-enchanted, half-mundane. This is the world of folk tale and fable, of mistakes made and lessons learned. But it is also our world, as I see it.
Peel back the layers and we are all ‘a boy in a park.’
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FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MY WORK
Richard Parkin

“Once there was a boy who lived in a park”

The innocent, misguided heroes in this collection wear their hearts on grubby, unwashed sleeves. They are outcasts, orphans, dreamers, longing for a better life, struggling to survive in a world caught between wonder and despair, half-enchanted, half-mundane. This is the world of folk tale and fable, of mistakes made and lessons learned. But it is also our world, as I see it.
Peel back the layers and we are all of us ‘a boy in a park.’
MINI tree
Find out more about my work

Richard Parkin is an author, filmmaker, and cartographer. He studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick and Acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. You’ll find him on the edge of the Peak District, Derbyshire, if you look hard enough.

THOUGHTS
notes and reflections on life and literature
FABLES
new versions of old fables with some originals hidden blossoming among them
STORE
posters, postcards, greetings cards, and first editions
CONTACT
You are welcome to contact me here

Richard Parkin is an author, filmmaker, and cartographer. He studied Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick and Acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. You’ll find him on the edge of the Peak District, Derbyshire, if you look hard enough.

Thoughts
notes and reflections on life and literature
Misadventures in the Land of Fables
new versions of old fables with some originals blossoming among them
Store
posters, postcards, greetings cards, and first editions
Contact
You are welcome to contact me here