In this text, Bill Broady follows up the acclaimed "Swimmer" with a collection of short stories which transports the reader from the backstreets of Bradford to dingy moorland pubs with dodgy jukeboxes.

In This Block Ther Lives a Slag and Other Yorkshire Fables

Literature & Fiction

Broady, Bill

Literary

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

In This Block There Lives a Slag...

Short Stories & Anthologies

HarperCollins, UK

In the title story of this sharp, clever collection of short stories, an odd-job man arrives home to his Bradford council block to find a message waiting for one of its inhabitantsin ten-foot-high letters. With his white van and set of ladders, he’s the chief suspect. But who is the mysterious Slag that has the whole street gossiping; and who has she hurt? In "Wrestling Jacob," a lusty academic takes out his frustrations down on the farm every weekend, sparring with a fierce, strangely human ram. It’s hard work being beaten up by a sheep, but he soon realizes that his girlfriends love to see him wrestle Jacob. And in "Coddock," there’s a bold new chipshop owner in town. But who is he? And what do you get if you cross a cod with a haddock, anyway? From the backstreets of Bradford to dingy moorland pubs with ten-year-old jukeboxes, Bill Broady’s bright new stories give Yorkshire a lick of new paint, with all of the searingly precise prose, wit, and energy of his highly acclaimed first novel, Swimmer.

In This Block There Lives a Slag...: And Other Yorkshire Fables

Contemporary

Flamingo

Eternity Is Temporary. Bill Broady

Portobello Books

<p>This is for anyone who sweated their way through the summer of '76, as well as readers of Jonathan's Coe's The Rotters' Club, Martin Amis's Success and Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden. It's the long, hot summer of 1976 and Adrea is falling in love for the first time, while nursing the decrepit residents of Heron Close, a care home in Chalk Farm. This is the summer that sees Blue Oyster Cult and Supertramp superseded by Patti Smith and the Stranglers, and as the heat rises in and out of the Roundhouse, the lives of Heron Close's residents and carers alike are about to blister and burn. And right in the midst of all this humdrum squalor, like the sun's rays beating back the darkness, are Adrea and Evan, about to let in the light and heat - with inflammatory results.</p>

Eternity Is Temporary

Granta Books

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