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Meet the Tindal Street authorsJackie GayJackie Gay - 'a writer of splendid vitality' - is an accomplished novelist, prize-winning anthologist and short story writer. Paul McDonaldBorn 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 a taste for chunky jewellery and combat dogs. Mandy SutterMandy Sutter is a poet and short story writer. Her poetry collections 'Permission to Stare' and 'Game' were published in the 1990s. Her forthcoming novel, The Habit of Loneliness, is set in Leeds, Scarborough and Nigeria, where she grew up in the 1960s during the days of oil exploitation. Gul Y. DavisGul Y. Davis was born in 1973. His 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’ – was awarded the J. B. Priestley Fiction Award 2001. Daphne GlazerDaphne 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 of her fiction, ‘Everything I write is about those quirky, unlikely people you might meet in the street.’ Alan BrayneAlan Brayne was born in the Black Country, has lived and worked as an English teacher in Indonesia, and is currently living in Busan, South Korea, where he is writing his second novel Kuta Bubbles. John DaltonJohn Dalton lives in Birmingham. He has two children and works as an adult literacy tutor. The Concrete Sea follows up his acclaimed debut The City Trap. Jeff PhelpsJeff Phelps lives in Bridgnorth, Shropshire and works as a local authority architect in Wolverhampton. He is widely published as a poet and short story writer, notably in London Magazine. Painter Man is his first novel. Michael RichardsonMichael 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 hilarious’ – is his first novel and in 2001 it won the Sagittarius Prize for the best debut by a writer over 60. Grace JolliffeGrace 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 and her short stories have been widely published. The Guardian said of her debut: ‘The real punch of this tale comes from the appalling isolation of Sparra’s childhood [it] leaves you gasping.’ Mick ScullyMick Scully lives in Birmingham. In Julne 2007 Tindal Street Press published his darkly witty and erotic collection, Little Moscow. The first story in his Little Moscow series, was published in the Tindal Street anthology Birmingham Noir. Myra ConnellMyra Connell grew up in Northern Ireland and now works in Birmingham as an Acupuncturist and Zero Balancer. She was a founder member of the writers' group Women & Words, and of Bleak House Books. Her 'mesmerisingly peculiar' stories and poems have also been published in Spinster, Writing Women and Her Majesty. Clare MorrallAstonishing 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 reflects Clare’s interest in the complexity of memory and the dynamics of family life. Her new novel Natural Flights of the Human Mind (Sceptre, January 2006) is about a man who lives alone in a disused lighthouse. Chris FarnellChris 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 Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in Norwich – where he still lives, writes and works. Will BuckinghamWill 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 of folk medicine. He returned to the UK to study anthropology and then philosophy, with phenomenology and ancient atomism among his interests. He now lives in Birmingham. Tindal Street published his debut novel, Cargo Fever, in March 2007. Catherine O'FlynnCatherine 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 experience of working in record stores - and of growing up as a child intrigued by clues, suspects and methods of detection. |
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