Ways of the Flesh

The American poet William Carlos Williams, who was also a GP in New Jersey, once asked a selection of writers how often they estimated that death appeared in their work. The count was high.

Prize-winning writer Nigel Jarrett, in his fifth collection of stories, explores the various paths taken towards our final and universal destination via the pleasures, the pains, and the vulnerabilities of life.

The secret web-browsing of a wife and mother; marital duplicity in Barcelona; the mysterious disappearance of an explorer; a startling theory about the moments after we die; a society woman's disappointment with a portrait of her painted by a famous artist; not one but two stories about the scattering of human ashes; a retired professor's chronicling of his physical decline; and, finally, a woman's tragic mis-deed teased from the fastnesses of cyberspace – in these sharp, shepherded fictions, Jarrett again ranges widely across time, place, and history to confront what we so often postpone and to unite us in our common fate.

ISBN 9781906385972

This title is due to be published in early July 2026. It will be available on Amazon, or by ordering through bookshops, quoting the title and ISBN.

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