David Grubb has published novels, poetry and short stories. Much of his writing has been founded on an understanding of rural life and values and more recently by his experience of extreme poverty and human conflict as an aid worker in Rwanda, Bosnia, Albania and Kosovo. His novella, Fire Child, is published by Leaf. His first collection of short stories, Hullabaloo and Secret Pianos, is appearing in 2011. In this new collection collisions, wonders, ballyhoo and sudden light signal the way we walk a tightrope between the real and the imagined. Our human world encompasses clowns, angels, the dead, ghosts and saints, parrots and horses, the upsidedown and secret dancing, kazoo music and heart songs.