The myths tell tales of two giant brothers, Goram and Vincent, who constructed the gorge.
Rumours of a Hurricane then constructs the back story of this suicide, the tale of a dull marriage from between the wars: Falklands and Gulf.
Telling the story through Haewon's diary entries, flashbacks, and dreams, Hong constructs the implicitly self-excoriating tale of drunken blunders and artistic frustrations with a mercurial intricacy.
I adored Anjali Joseph's The Living (Fourth Estate £12.99), which leapt across continents to tell its moving and carefully constructed tale, while the interlinked stories of Joanna Walsh's Vertigo (And Other Stories £8.99) came together to give us a vision of the book's damaged, distant narrator that was profoundly affecting.
Forget the constructed, romanticised tales of Slumdog Millionaire, or Coldplay dancing in Mumbai, Divine is the real deal – a A force of nature representing the real streets and slums of India's most arcane city.
Arguably the strongest song of the set, opener "Charming Disease" is a delicately constructed cautionary tale about alcohol addiction, followed by "Merritt Parkway," which could be interpreted as an ominous and wistful prequel to the tragedy of the previous song.
A gentle critique of the false associations we've attached to the season, it's a pretty perfectly constructed summer tale in itself.
In an article in The Independent earlier this month, she wrote that he had constructed a "tale designed to portray Argentines as savages", by reporting claims that protestors threatened to barbecue the BBC team and eat them alive.
Not even Thomas Hardy could have constructed a tale in which so many unfortunate circumstances collude against a proud and intelligent person.
4. Adamtine by Hannah Berry (2012) A masterfully constructed tale, scattered with puzzles – the title itself being one example – which gradually builds a sense of unease.
Scenes of children being carried from a flimsy dinghy through the spray of the Aegean and onto the island take on the moral weight of a carefully constructed tale.
