David Gaffney lives in Manchester. He has worked as an English teacher, a pub pianist, a debt counsellor. His collection, Sawn-off Tales, was published by Salt in 2006 to critical acclaim.

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Aromabingo is the much aniticipated sequel to Gaffney's highly-acclaimed 'Sawn-off Tales', offering yet more weird, edgy, ultra-short stories, together with several longer ones - the perfect opportunity to spend more time inside the baffling, hilarious and sometimes moving world David Gaffney paints for us.

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45 REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE: Art Movement The Kids from Film Noir Pretty, Ain't It? All Mod Cons Sniffin' Glue Still in Box Speaking in Pantone Die like a Rock Great Inventions # 1 Lucky Winner A Good Deal Through the Medium of Modern Dance Great Inventions # 2 Smaller than One Eightieth the Diameter of a Human Hair Blurred Girls The Secret Pictures of David Cameron The Newt Lady's Dead Now The Life of Riley You've Chosen to be Excited Great Inventions # 3 Are We Romping Now? Clown-Time is Over The Accused Made Spider Furniture Container Driver Using the Facilities When Chairs Attack Shooting Lulu A Feel for Format Grockel Bashing Cleaning up New York Aromabingo 2. TWELVE-INCH SINGLES: The Happiness Well Last Chance to Turn Around You and You Alone Only the Stones Remain In the Days Before Trickery The Nineteen Seventy-Six Trouser Famine Who reads this story will not sin What Would Bill Hicks Do? Mean Picking The Last Northerner 3. LONG PLAYERS: This is About Dixie Finding Skerryvore Does Anyone Care for You on a Regular Basis? Special Pudding Guided by Voices Gossamer 4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS