Evangelista's Fan and Other Stories is a collection of eleven short stories by English author Rose Tremain. It was published in 1994 in the UK by Sinclair Stevenson. Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide described it as being 'particularly fine'. Stories "Evangelista's Fan" - A 27-year-old Italian clockmaker Salvatore learns that the King of Piedmont has erased the years of his life so he flees to London in 1815. There he falls in love with a woman who has lost the key to a Huygen clock. She does not bring the clock to him and he falls into despair. Eventually he decides to make barometers, inspired by Evangelista Torricelli. He chooses an Italian barometer-maker called E. Fantino and he discovers that owners are English and they say that Fantino was just invented. They ask him to become an apprentice, to cut all his ties and to become Evangelisto Fantino. Salvatore manages to forget about the woman and starts the apprenticeship which takes him two years to perfect his crafts... "The Candle Maker" (Trio, Penguin, 1993) - Set in Corsica, Mercedes Dubois had two tragedies in her life. First was her planned marriage to Louis: he went to Paris and found someone else, as Mercedes had planned to kill them. Then 27 years later, the village laundry where she worked was destroyed by a fire. Mercedes started recycling votive candles when she heard from her sister that Louis had returned to the village... "Two of Them" (Marie Claire, 1992) - 14-year-old Lewis' father began to 'lose his mind' as he became obsessed with Martians who were going to arrive in his garden. The family moved to Cornwall but his father believed that the Martians would still visit him. His father helped Lewis to prepare a landing area on the beach. But that night Lewis had a secret assignation with two twin girls in a tent. When Lewis arrived home his father hit him as Lewis was not there to meet the Martians. "The Crossing of Herald Montjoy" (The Independent, 1993) - Montjoy was the French herald at the Battle of Agincourt. He is sent to Henry V of England to tell them to be ransomed, as the French Army is five times larger. Interleaved with the battle is Montjoys courting of Cecille three years earlier, which results in his failure. Similarly the Battle of Agincourt fails from his point of view. "The Unoccupied