8 new intoxicating short stories from Picador’s most exciting writers

Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw
Rising from a childhood of rough dockside brawls, a young bare-knuckle fighter faces off against a legendary behemoth.

The Ecstasy of Alfred Russel Wallace
In the jungles of the Malay Archipelago, a botanist is struck by an epiphany that will change not only his own life, but the course of science.

Author Information

Daniel Mason received his bachelor’s degree in biology at Harvard in 1998 and spent a year studying malaria on the Thailand-Myanmar border, where much of his debut, The Piano Tuner, was written. He studied medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.