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. Alan Apperley
  Alan Apperley is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at Wolverhampton University and a member of 1980s cult post-punk band The Nightingales, who played more Peel sessions than any other band excluding The Fall. The Nightingales re-formed in 2004,...
  - Indeterminate Creatures
    
    Published: March 2010
    
    Indeterminate Creatures
    
    Published — March 2010
3. Gaynor Arnold
  Gaynor Arnold’s first novel, Girl in a Blue Dress, based on the marriage of Charles Dickens, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008 and the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009. Her collection of short stories Lying Together was published to...
  - Girl in a Blue Dress
    
    Published — September 2008
  - Lying Together
    
    Published — February 2011
  - Girl in a Blue Dress (reissue)
    
    Published — February 2011
  - After Such Kindness
    
    Published — July 2012
4. Kalinda Ashton
  Kalinda Ashton was born in Melbourne in 1978. She has been involved in student, union and community campaigns. She is an associate editor of Overland magazine, and a teacher of writing and editing. Named as a ‘Sydney Morning Herald Best Young...
  - The Danger Game
    
    Published: March 2011
    
    The Danger Game
    
    Published — March 2011
  - The Danger Game (paperback)
    
    Published: March 2012
    
    The Danger Game (paperback)
    
    Published — March 2012
5. 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
  - You Don't Have to Say
    
    Published: September 2010
    
    You Don't Have to Say
    
    Published — September 2010
6. David Belbin
  David Belbin was born in Sheffield but lives in Nottingham, where he teaches on the Nottingham Trent University Creative Writing MA. David’s debut adult crime novel, Bone and Cane, was a bestseller for many weeks on Amazon. The second in the Bone...
  - Bone & Cane
    
    Published — March 2011
  - Bone and Cane (paperback)
    
    Published — January 2012
  - What You Don't Know
    
    Published — May 2012
7. 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
8. Kavita Bhanot
  Kavita Bhanot grew up in London and lived in Birmingham before moving to Delhi to direct an Indian-British literary festival and then work as an editor for India’s first literary agency. She has several stories published in anthologies and...
  - Too Asian, Not Asian Enough
    
    Published: October 2011
    
    Too Asian, Not Asian Enough
    
    Published — October 2011
9. 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
10. 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...
11. 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
12. 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 (Demy Paperback)
    
    Published — May 2009
  - The Afterglow
    
    Published — February 2004
  - Heartland
    
    Published — May 2010
  - How I Killed Margaret Thatcher
    
    Published — August 2012
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
  - More
    
    Published: April 2010
    
    More
    
    Published — April 2010
16. 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
17. 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
18. Penny Feeny
  Penny Feeny has lived and worked in Cambridge, London and Rome. Since settling in Liverpool many years ago she has been an arts administrator, editor, radio presenter and advice worker. Her short fiction has been widely published, broadcast and...
  - That Summer in Ischia
    
    Published — May 2011
  - That Summer in Ischia (paperback)
    
    Published — May 2012
  - The Apartment in Rome
    
    Published — July 2013
19. 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
20. Richard Francis
  Richard Francis has published nine previous novels and three non-fiction books. He has written for TV and regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio. In 2010, as well as The Old Spring, he is publishing Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for...
  - The Old Spring
    
    Published: July 2010
    
    The Old Spring
    
    Published — July 2010
  - The Old Spring (paperback)
    
    Published: July 2011
    
    The Old Spring (paperback)
    
    Published — July 2011
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
  - Chosen
    
    Published — May 2010
  - Chosen (paperback)
    
    Published — June 2011
24. Rodge Glass
  RODGE GLASS is the author of the novels No Fireworks (Faber, 2005) and Hope for Newborns (Faber, 2008), as well as Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography (Bloomsbury, 2008), which received a Somerset Maugham Award in 2009. Recently, he was...
  - Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs
    
    Published: April 2012
    
    Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs
    
    Published — April 2012
25. 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
26. Charlie Hill
  Charlie Hill is a writer from Birmingham. His first novel was recently described as ‘an inventive debut’ by the Observer and ‘wonderfully observed’ by The Times. His short stories have appeared in Ambit, Stand and The View From Here. His novel...
  - Books
    
    Published: November 2013
    
    Books
    
    Published — November 2013
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. Russ Litten
  Russ Litten has written drama for television, radio and Hollywood film. He currently works as a writer in prisons and lives with his family in Kingston Upon Hull.
  - Swear Down
    
    Published: April 2013
    
    Swear Down
    
    Published — April 2013
31. 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
32. 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
33. 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
34. 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
35. Candi Miller
  Candi Miller, born in Zambia and brought up in South Africa, has been a journalist and advertising copywriter. She now lives in Stafffordshire where she teaches Creative Writing. In 1994 she undertook an expedition to the Kalahari Desert to visit...
  - Salt and Honey
    
    Published — August 2011
  - Kalahari Passage
    
    Published — September 2011
  - Kalahari Passage (paperback)
    
    Published — June 2012
36. Debbie Morgan
  Deborah Morgan lives in Liverpool. Before taking up writing, she worked as a chambermaid, a bingo caller, a dressmaker and a primary school teacher.
  
  Written at the instigation of legendary film-maker Terence Davies, the first chapter of...
  - Disappearing Home
    
    Published: March 2012
    
    Disappearing Home
    
    Published — March 2012
37. 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
38. 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
39. 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
  - The Game is Altered
    
    Published: February 2012
    
    The Game is Altered
    
    Published — February 2012
40. Ian Pattison
  Ian Pattison is a noted TV writer whose credits include Athletico Partick, Naked Video and writing all ten series of Rab C. Nesbitt. He has written three novels, including Looking at the Stars. His play, I, Tommy, toured throughout 2012. He was...
  - Unhappy-Go-Lucky
    
    Published: April 2013
    
    Unhappy-Go-Lucky
    
    Published — April 2013
41. 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
42. 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
43. 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
44. 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
45. Lawrence Scott
  Lawrence Scott was born on a sugarcane estate in Trinidad. Three of his books have been listed for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. He divides his time between London and Port of Spain, Trinidad.
  - Light Falling on Bamboo
    
    Published: September 2012
    
    Light Falling on Bamboo
    
    Published — September 2012
46. 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
47. Raphael Selbourne
  Raphael Selbourne was born and grew up in Oxford. After studying Politics at Sussex University, he moved to Italy where he worked mostly as a teacher and translator. More recently he lived in the West Midlands, the setting for his novel Beauty,...
  - Beauty
    
    Published: January 2010
    
    Beauty
    
    Published — January 2010
  - Beauty (Original Cover)
    
    Published: September 2009
    
    Beauty (Original Cover)
    
    Published — September 2009
48. 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 (Trade Paperback)
    
    Published: May 2009
    
    Tell it to the Bees (Trade Paperback)
    
    Published — May 2009
  - Tell it to the Bees
    
    Published: April 2010
    
    Tell it to the Bees
    
    Published — April 2010
49. Sarah Stovell
  Sarah Stovell was born in 1977 and grew up in Oxfordshire. The Night Flower was written as part of a PhD in Creative Writing at Northumbria University. She lives in Northumberland with her partner and two young children.
  - The Night Flower
    
    Published: August 2013
    
    The Night Flower
    
    Published — August 2013
50. Paul Wilson
  Paul Wilson’s novels include Noah, Noah and Someone to Watch Over Me. He lives in Lancashire and works rehabilitating people with learning disabilities, mental illnesses or who are young offenders. In 1997 he won the Portico Prize for Literature...
  - The Visiting Angel
    
    Published — April 2011
  - The Visiting Angel (paperback)
    
    Published — February 2012
  - Mouse and the Cossacks
    
    Published — June 2013
51. 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

All Authors

Before the Earthquake

Before the Earthquake

Indeterminate Creatures

Indeterminate Creatures

Girl in a Blue Dress

Lying Together

Girl in a Blue Dress (reissue)

After Such Kindness

The Danger Game

The Danger Game

The Danger Game (paperback)

The Danger Game (paperback)

Going the Distance

Going the Distance

You Don't Have to Say

You Don't Have to Say

Bone & Cane

Bone and Cane (paperback)

What You Don't Know

All The Dogs

All The Dogs

Too Asian, Not Asian Enough

Too Asian, Not Asian Enough

Jakarta Shadows

Jakarta Shadows

Cargo Fever

Cargo Fever

Heartland (Demy Paperback)

The Afterglow

Heartland

How I Killed Margaret Thatcher

Mango Shake

Mango Shake

What Goes Round

What Goes Round

The Polished Hoe

The Polished Hoe

More

More

The City Trap

The City Trap

The Concrete Sea

The Concrete Sea

Mark II

Mark II

That Summer in Ischia

That Summer in Ischia (paperback)

The Apartment in Rome

The Executioner's Art

The Executioner's Art

The Old Spring

The Old Spring

The Old Spring (paperback)

The Old Spring (paperback)

Never Never

Never Never

Hard Shoulder

Wist

Scapegrace

Her Majesty

Are You She?

Chosen

Chosen (paperback)

Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs

Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs

By the Tide of Humber

By the Tide of Humber

Goodbye, Hessle Road

Goodbye, Hessle Road

Books

Books

Blood Tender

Blood Tender

Piggy Monk Square

Piggy Monk Square

Birmingham Noir

Birmingham Noir

Swear Down

Swear Down