If you've missed Lan, Izzy and the
NIPS XI gang then check this out: they're all back and having a brand new adventure in Ruth's new story
Only A Game!
In the first new story since
Nips Go National, Lan, Izzy and the rest of the team play one more game, when they are invited to compete against a group of young asylum seekers, and Lan has to make a crucial decision.
The short story is featured in Penguin's new anthology
Things A Map Won't Show You, out now.
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Can't wait? Read an excerpt from
Only A Game below.
Excerpts from "It's Only A Game", a new short story by Ruth Starke
Taken from Things A Map Won't Show You, Penguin (2012)
SATURDAY
So there was a fence, a high one, too, easily three metres, and made of strong cyclone wire.
“Told you,” Andy said behind him. “Nobody can get out.”
“They can't get in either,” Lan said, pointing out the window of the mini-bus to the open pastures on the other side of the road. “Maybe that's why they built the fence.”
“Yeah, right,” Andy said. “And that's why there are guards with walkie-talkies. To stop the cows getting in.”
Lan grinned. He'd been winding Andy up. Andy was always so sure he was right about everything. You could probably scale the fence if you were determined, he reflected. He couldn't see any sentry posts manned by armed guards, so it wasn't a prison camp like the ones in movies. No Alsatians straining on the leash, either.
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