‘One o’Clock Special’ will be published on 17 September 2009 in Roads Ahead, an anthology of short stories published by Tindal Street Press and edited by Catherine O’Flynn.
The story is set at many one o’clocks in the Cornhouse bistro in Shrewsbury, and is a sort of zoetrope of the relationship that grows between single mother Elizabeth and disenchanted married man Paul.
Tindal Street Press is a small independent publisher based in Birmingham that has been making big waves in recent years. It started out ten years ago with a short story collection entitled Hard Shoulder, and has stuck to its guns publishing work “from the English regions”. It has made somewhat of a habit of placing books on the Man Booker Prize longlist and shortlist, in the form of Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall, What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn and Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold. These titles were recently gathered in a box set.
Roads Ahead is pitched as a new wave of work from the regions, presenting a fresh series of voices to the growing Tindal Street readership.
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‘One o’Clock Special’ will be published on 17 September 2009 in Roads Ahead, an anthology of short stories published by Tindal Street Press and edited by Catherine O’Flynn.
The story is set at many one o’clocks in the Cornhouse bistro in Shrewsbury, and is a sort of zoetrope of the relationship that grows between single mother Elizabeth and disenchanted married man Paul.
Tindal Street Press is a small independent publisher based in Birmingham that has been making big waves in recent years. It started out ten years ago with a short story collection entitled Hard Shoulder, and has stuck to its guns publishing work “from the English regions”. It has made somewhat of a habit of placing books on the Man Booker Prize longlist and shortlist, in the form of Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall, What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn and Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold. These titles were recently gathered in a box set.
Roads Ahead is pitched as a new wave of work from the regions, presenting a fresh series of voices to the growing Tindal Street readership.