Featuring twenty vigorous, original stories by widely published authors and up-and-coming new talent, this impressive anthology transports readers from Birmingham to Trinidad, Colombia to Canada, and Liverpool to London Award-winning author Alan Beard expertly compiles a surprising array of contemporary voices in this engaging read. Stories include Gemma Blackshaw's spot-on portrait of an Essex girl on the verge of losing her virginity; Joel Lane's beautiful, poetical allegory about a man's relationship with alcohol; and Godfrey Featherstone's heartbreaking tale of an illiterate Birmingham couple, told in the form of a letter from a prison cell. Also included is a story written by Beard himself, which cuts of the quick with a painfully honest study of growing regret and acceptance after a marriage break-up through infidelity. "Going the Distance" is always powerful, original, and perfectly understated, with each author's voice both presented in a thoroughly strong and enticing manner.
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'Going the Distance holds a world between its covers' -- Sebastian Barker, London Magazine
'Going the Distance is always powerful, original, perfectly understated, each voice strong and enticing' -- Laura Hird
'Spiky, eclectic and idiosyncratic ... a convincing demonstration that some of the best English writing comes from beyond the M25' -- D J Taylor
'Going the Distance is always powerful, original, perfectly understated, each voice strong and enticing' -- Laura Hird
'Spiky, eclectic and idiosyncratic ... a convincing demonstration that some of the best English writing comes from beyond the M25' -- D J Taylor
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Alan Beard’s short story collection Taking Doreen Out of the Sky was published by Picador in 1999. The Times described Doreen as ‘rich in detail and implication ... a truly fine collection’, and Nicholas Royle in the Guardian called it ‘superb … as absorbing and insightful as Sillitoe and Barstow.’ Beard’s stories have been widely published in British and North American magazines and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
Alan Beard’s short story collection Taking Doreen Out of the Sky was published by Picador in 1999. The Times described Doreen as ‘rich in detail and implication ... a truly fine collection’, and Nicholas Royle in the Guardian called it ‘superb … as absorbing and insightful as Sillitoe and Barstow.’ Beard’s stories have been widely published in British and North American magazines and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
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