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To find the most exciting new voices, you have to leave the metropolitan mainstream; regionalism is where its at these days
Hard Shoulder,
published by the estimable Tindal Street Press, was a wonderful surprise: 16 excellent new writers with little in common but a fierce commitment to their home town and the task of faithfully celebrating the lives that unfold in it. The tank of this great city, so under explored in modern literature, has never been so vividly or diversely conveyed. Jonathan Coes book of the year, (New Statesman)
Hard Shoulder is cool an excellent anthology of short stories about Brum
16 well-crafted works of love for our second city
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Winner of the Raymond Williams Community Publishing Prize 2000. A book which achieves the magic mix of creative energy, literary excellence and fine production values. It is a book which deserves to be read, a book which captures the essence if a city, its geography, its civic landscape, its atmosphere
The city is Birmingham. Mahendra Solanki, on behalf of his fellow judges, Joe Bidder & Rabbi Julia Neuberger
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