All Authors

1. Maria Allen
  Maria Allen is half Italian, half English and has lived in different parts of Italy and the USA. She has worked as a journalist, in TV research, publishing and most recently in teaching. She lives in Loughborough.
  - Before the Earthquake
    
    Published: February 2010
    
    Before the Earthquake
    
    Published — February 2010
2. Gaynor Arnold
  Gaynor Arnold was born and brought up in Cardiff, and was an au pair in Paris before reading English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She is married, with two grown-up children and currently works for Birmingham’s Adoption & Fostering Service. She...
  - Girl in a Blue Dress
    
    Published: September 2008
    
    Girl in a Blue Dress
    
    Published — September 2008
3. Alan Beard
  Alan Beard’s stories have been broadcast on Radio 4 and appeared in numerous magazines including London Magazine, Panurge, Critical Quarterly and Malahat Review. His debut collection Taking Doreen out of the Sky was published by Picador in 1999...
  - Going the Distance
    
    Published: October 2003
    
    Going the Distance
    
    Published — October 2003
4. Daniel Bennett
  Daniel Bennett was born in a small village in the Shropshire countryside in 1974. He has worked in bookshops, offices, libraries, wine merchants and factories around the country. His short stories have appeared in literary and crime anthologies...
  - All The Dogs
    
    Published: March 2008
    
    All The Dogs
    
    Published — March 2008
5. Alan Brayne
  Alan Brayne was born in the Black Country, but lived in Indonesia for six years and is writing a trilogy based on his time there. His first novel, Jakarta Shadows, was published by Tindal Street Press in 2002. His second novel, Kuta Bubbles was...
  - Jakarta Shadows
    
    Published: May 2002
    
    Jakarta Shadows
    
    Published — May 2002
6. Yvonne Brissett
  Yvonne Brissett is a broadcast journalist at BBC Birmingham. Born in Gloucester to Jamaican parents, she moved to Birmingham to go to university, and now calls the city home. Her credits include BBC2’s late-night entertainment series, The A...
7. Will Buckingham
  Will Buckingham studied Fine Arts before running away to Indonesia to study sculpture in the Spice Islands. While in Indonesia he spent time in the Tanimbar Islands, where he suffered malarial fevers, witchcraft, exorcism and idiosyncratic forms...
  - Cargo Fever
    
    Published: April 2007
    
    Cargo Fever
    
    Published — April 2007
8. Anthony Cartwright
  Anthony Cartwright was born in Dudley in 1973. In 1993 he left to study English and American literature at UEA. Having worked in factories, meatpacking plants, pubs and warehouses and with London Underground, in 1998 he trained as an English...
  - Heartland
    
    Published: May 2009
    
    Heartland
    
    Published — May 2009
  - The Afterglow
    
    Published: February 2004
    
    The Afterglow
    
    Published — February 2004
9. Debjani Chatterjee
  Debjani Chatterjee is one of Britain’s best-known Asian writers, ‘a poet full of wit and charm’ (Andrew Motion). She grew up in India, Japan, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Egypt and Morocco. Debjani chairs the National Association of Writers in...
  - Mango Shake
    
    Published: July 2006
    
    Mango Shake
    
    Published — July 2006
10. Maeve Clarke
  Maeve Clarke was born in Birmingham to Jamaican parents. A graduate of Manchester University’s MA in novel writing, she currently works for the British Council in Italy. Her ‘potent and supple’ short story ‘Letters A Yard’ is featured...
  - What Goes Round
    
    Published: July 2003
    
    What Goes Round
    
    Published — July 2003
11. Austin Clarke
  Austin Clarke’s novel The Polished Hoe is the winner of the 2003 Commonwealth Prize; the 2002 Giller Prize – Canada’s most prestigious literary award; and Ontario’s 2002 Trillium Book Award. It is a Canadian and American bestseller....
  - The Polished Hoe
    
    Published: March 2004
    
    The Polished Hoe
    
    Published — March 2004
12. John Dalton
  John Dalton lives in Birmingham. He has two children and works as an adult literacy tutor. The Concrete Sea follows up Dalton’s acclaimed debut The City Trap.
  
  “Crime writing is at its best when it summons an unmistakable sense of place, and...
  - The City Trap
    
    Published: May 2002
    
    The City Trap
    
    Published — May 2002
  - The Concrete Sea
    
    Published: April 2001
    
    The Concrete Sea
    
    Published — April 2001
13. Chris Farnell
  Chris Farnell was born in Leicester in 1984. He’s been making up stories as far back as he can remember and started writing Mark II when he should have been revising for his A Levels. He continued writing Mark II while he studied English...
  - Mark II
    
    Published: May 2006
    
    Mark II
    
    Published — May 2006
14. David Fine
  The Executioner’s Art reflects Fine’s first trade as an archaeologist: stripping things down to reveal their origins. His author credits range from A Complete Guide to the French Revolution 1789–1989 to A History & Guide to Sheffield, but...
  - The Executioner's Art
    
    Published: October 2002
    
    The Executioner's Art
    
    Published — October 2002
15. David Gaffney
  David Gaffney was born in West Cumbria, and now lives in Manchester. He has worked as a film studies lecturer, a holiday camp entertainer, a medical records clerk, a pub pianist, a debt counsellor in Moss Side, and now works for a shadowy...
  - Never Never
    
    Published: September 2008
    
    Never Never
    
    Published — September 2008
16. Jackie Gay
  Jackie Gay was born in Birmingham in 1962. She has published one novel, Scapegrace, and has co-edited three anthologies of short stories including Hard Shoulder, which won the Raymond Williams Community Publishing Prize. She is currently working...
  - Hard Shoulder
    
    Published — October 1999
  - Wist
    
    Published — July 2003
  - Scapegrace
    
    Published — April 2000
  - Her Majesty
    
    Published — May 2002
17. Lesley Glaister
  Novelist Lesley Glaister was born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England in 1956. She grew up in Suffolk, moving to Sheffield with her first husband, where she took a degree with the Open University. She was ‘discovered’ by the novelist...
  - Are You She?
    
    Published: November 2004
    
    Are You She?
    
    Published — November 2004
18. Daphne Glazer
  Daphne Glazer lives in Hull where she works as a Quaker Visiting Minister in Hull Prison, as an FE teacher and a creative writing tutor. Roddy Doyle praised her first collection as: ‘great stories, shocking and ordinary’, and the author says...
  - By the Tide of Humber
    
    Published: September 2007
    
    By the Tide of Humber
    
    Published — September 2007
  - Goodbye, Hessle Road
    
    Published: March 2005
    
    Goodbye, Hessle Road
    
    Published — March 2005
19. Rachel Ingrams
  Rachel Ingrams was born in 1974. Blood Tender is her first novel and is drawn in part from the times when she lived and worked in Sicily, aged 19, and when she lived in a gypsy tenement in Prague, aged 24. Rachel now lives in Sheffield where she...
  - Blood Tender
    
    Published: July 2008
    
    Blood Tender
    
    Published — July 2008
20. Grace Jolliffe
  Grace Jolliffe was born and brought up in Liverpool and now lives on the east coast of Ireland. A writer and film-maker, her award-winning short films have been screened at festivals worldwide. She has written and directed several documentaries...
  - Piggy Monk Square
    
    Published: May 2005
    
    Piggy Monk Square
    
    Published — May 2005
21. Joel Lane
  Joel Lane is the author of a collection of short stories, The Earth Wire (Egerton Press, 1994); a collection of poems, The Edge of the Screen (Arc, 1999); and two novels, From Blue To Black (Serpent’s Tail, 2000) and The Blue Mask (Serpent’s...
  - Birmingham Noir
    
    Published: October 2002
    
    Birmingham Noir
    
    Published — October 2002
22. Sidura Ludwig
  Sidura Ludwig was born and raised in Winnipeg, Canada, and lived in Birmingham from 2001 to 2004. Her short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies in Canada and England, as has her non-fiction, and she is the recipient of the...
  - Holding My Breath
    
    Published: March 2008
    
    Holding My Breath
    
    Published — March 2008
23. Alan Mahar
  Alan Mahar is the author of two novels, Flight Patterns (Gollancz, 1999) and After the Man Before (Methuen, 2002). His short stories have appeared in, among others, Critical Quarterly and London Magazine; his book reviews in New Statesman,...
  - Birmingham Nouveau
    
    Published: November 2002
    
    Birmingham Nouveau
    
    Published — November 2002
24. E. A. Markham
  E. A. (Archie) Markham was born on the Caribbean island of Montserrat and lived in London, the south of France, Sheffield, and in his last years, Paris. A Professor of Creative Writing and much praised poet, whose The Rough Climate was...
  - At Home with Miss Vanesa
    
    Published — October 2006
  - Meet Me in Mozambique
    
    Published — October 2005
  - The Three Suitors of Fred Belair
    
    Published — January 2009
  - The Stories of E. A. Markham
    
    Published — October 2009
25. Paul McDonald
  Born in Walsall, Paul McDonald left school at 16 to train as a saddlemaker. In 1986 he began full-time study, completed his PhD in 1993 and now lectures at Wolverhampton University. Paul remains in Walsall where, to his horror, he’s developing...
  - Do I Love You?
    
    Published — April 2008
  - Loffing Matters
    
    Published — July 2006
  - Kiss Me Softly, Amy Turtle
    
    Published — April 2004
  - Surviving Sting
    
    Published — October 2001
26. Clare Morrall
  Astonishing Splashes of Colour – shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2003 – is Tindal Street’s bestselling title and has been translated into a dozen languages worldwide. Absorbing and sure-footed, beautifully written and perceptive,...
  - Astonishing Splashes of Colour
    
    Published: February 2003
    
    Astonishing Splashes of Colour
    
    Published — February 2003
  - A Booker Prize Trio
    
    Published: October 2009
    
    A Booker Prize Trio
    
    Published — October 2009
27. Catherine O'Flynn
  Catherine O’Flynn was born in Birmingham in 1970, where she grew up in and around her parents’ sweet shop as the youngest in a large family. She has been a teacher, web editor, mystery customer and postwoman. Her first novel draws on her...
  - What Was Lost
    
    Published — September 2008
  - Roads Ahead
    
    Published — October 2009
  - What Was Lost (original edition)
    
    Published — January 2007
28. Mez Packer
  Born in Essex, Mez Packer was a student at Warwick University in the 80s and travelled in Europe and Asia. She experimented in alternative lifestyles in the 90s and travelled to India, Nepal and Thailand. She lives with her partner (a veteran of...
  - Among Thieves
    
    Published: March 2009
    
    Among Thieves
    
    Published — March 2009
29. Jeff Phelps
  Jeff Phelps was born in New Brighton. His stories and poetry have been widely published, most notably in London Magazine, and he was winner of the Mail on Sunday novel competition in 1991. He is married with two grown-up children. He lives in...
  - Box of Tricks
    
    Published: July 2009
    
    Box of Tricks
    
    Published — July 2009
  - Painter Man
    
    Published: May 2005
    
    Painter Man
    
    Published — May 2005
30. Michael Richardson
  Michael Richardson’s first career was as head of art in Birmingham secondary schools. His paintings have been widely exhibited. In his third career he has had short stories, poems and articles published. The Pig Bin – ‘offbeat, moving and...
  - Careless Talk
    
    Published: October 2007
    
    Careless Talk
    
    Published — October 2007
  - The Pig Bin
    
    Published: April 2000
    
    The Pig Bin
    
    Published — April 2000
31. Leone Ross
  Leone Ross was born in Coventry in 1969. She grew up in Jamaica and returned to the UK in 1991. She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, All The Blood Is Red (ARP, 1996) and Orange Laughter (Anchor Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux,...
  - Whispers in the Walls
    
    Published: October 2001
    
    Whispers in the Walls
    
    Published — October 2001
32. Nicholas Royle
  Nicholas Royle is the author of five novels and more than a hundred short stories. His ‘chilling and exhilarating’ Belgian noir thriller Antwerp was published by Serpent’s Tail in June 2004. He has edited twelve anthologies including The Time Out...
  - Dreams Never End
    
    Published: November 2004
    
    Dreams Never End
    
    Published — November 2004
33. Mick Scully
  Mick Scully lives and works in Birmingham: a city whose underworld inspires his fiction. In June 2007 Tindal Street Press published his darkly witty and erotic collection, Little Moscow. The first story in his Little Moscow series was published...
  - Little Moscow
    
    Published: August 2007
    
    Little Moscow
    
    Published — August 2007
34. Raphael Selbourne
  Born in Oxford within a distinguished academic family, Raphael Selbourne studied politics at Sussex University, before moving to Italy where he was a translator, sold TV advertising and scooters. He has also taught in China and since 2004 in the...
  - Beauty
    
    Published: January 2010
    
    Beauty
    
    Published — January 2010
  - Beauty (Original Cover)
    
    Published: September 2009
    
    Beauty (Original Cover)
    
    Published — September 2009
35. Fiona Shaw
  Fiona Shaw lives and works in York, where she teaches at the university. After giving birth to her two daughters, she suffered a postnatal breakdown – an experience she chronicled in her acclaimed non-fiction debut, Out of Me, shortlisted for...
  - Tell it to the Bees
    
    Published: May 2009
    
    Tell it to the Bees
    
    Published — May 2009
36. Gul Y. Davis
  Gul Y. Davis’s writing has appeared in many magazines and anthologies. His critically acclaimed novella A Lone Walk – praised in the Times as ‘a strange and unexpected read, with a ragged freshness that makes it forceful and affecting’ –...
  - A Lone Walk
    
    Published: October 2000
    
    A Lone Walk
    
    Published — October 2000

Tindal Street Press

All Authors

Before the Earthquake

Before the Earthquake

Girl in a Blue Dress

Girl in a Blue Dress

Going the Distance

Going the Distance

All The Dogs

All The Dogs

Jakarta Shadows

Jakarta Shadows

Cargo Fever

Cargo Fever

Heartland

Heartland

The Afterglow

The Afterglow

Mango Shake

Mango Shake

What Goes Round

What Goes Round

The Polished Hoe

The Polished Hoe

The City Trap

The City Trap

The Concrete Sea

The Concrete Sea

Mark II

Mark II

The Executioner's Art

The Executioner's Art

Never Never

Never Never

Hard Shoulder

Wist

Scapegrace

Her Majesty

Are You She?

Are You She?

By the Tide of Humber

By the Tide of Humber

Goodbye, Hessle Road

Goodbye, Hessle Road

Blood Tender

Blood Tender

Piggy Monk Square

Piggy Monk Square

Birmingham Noir

Birmingham Noir

Holding My Breath

Holding My Breath

Birmingham Nouveau

Birmingham Nouveau

At Home with Miss Vanesa

Meet Me in Mozambique

The Three Suitors of Fred Belair

The Stories of E. A. Markham

Do I Love You?

Loffing Matters

Kiss Me Softly, Amy Turtle

Surviving Sting

Astonishing Splashes of Colour

Astonishing Splashes of Colour

A Booker Prize Trio

A Booker Prize Trio

What Was Lost

Roads Ahead

What Was Lost (original edition)

Among Thieves

Among Thieves

Box of Tricks

Box of Tricks

Painter Man

Painter Man

Careless Talk

Careless Talk

The Pig Bin

The Pig Bin

Whispers in the Walls