<b>Years after the death of toddler Adam, a family is bound together in sadness and joy as they fight to overcome feeling haunted by that tragic day</b> Meet the family: there's Luke at work at Paradise Meatpacking, out on the town with Jamie, hitting the bars with his unnerving mate Risley, and back in bed with his ex-fiancee. Despite his actions, he knows he can count on his parents to bail him out of trouble, or for his sister Kerry to have his back and give him sound advice, as they all struggle to understand and prevail above an untimely death years before.

The Afterglow

Literature & Fiction

Cartwright, Anthony

Literary

Tindal Street Press

In a richly imagined novel about grassroots politics, soccer, and the far right in a multicultural town, Anthony Cartwright audaciously enters the heartland of post-9/11 BritainIt’s spring of 2002 in the Black Country, and the changes underfoot might prove to be more than the locals can withstand. With local elections looming, a mosque is being built on the site where Cinderheath's iconic steelworks once centered the town. "The Tipton Three," from just down the road, are imprisoned in Guantanamo, and the British National Partythe "BNP"expect to win new seats on the council. Despite it all, the town is getting geared up for the World Cup to begin with England to play Argentina. But first, a controversial Sunday-league game must take place, billed by the press as "a match to spark a race war." In the middle of the mess is Rob, a former professional soccer player like his famous father. He’s now a teaching assistant, sympathetic to the children of families he knows too well. On the soccer field, as the BNP prowl the touchlines, he finds himself facing Zubair, the brother of his missing best friend, and both men are bound together by the mystery of the disappearance.

Heartland

Genre Fiction

Tindal st Pr Ltd

'Judas Iscariot's here, look. Here comes Judas Iscariot...' Nine-year old Sean has never seen anything like what happens on the day Margaret Thatcher takes power and his grandad discovers his uncle voted for her. So begins the start of a family secret and the end of Sean's idyllic childhood in the industrial Midlands-until, one day, deciding that someone's got to stop the train of destruction, he sets out for revenge. A heartbreaking and timely story of a moment of national crisis as felt by one family, How I Killed Margaret Thatcher delivers a devastating English twist on the dictator novel.

How I Killed Margaret Thatcher

Serpent's Tail

It is Spring 2002 in the Black Country, with local elections looming. A mosque is being built on the site where iconic steelworks once dominated the town. "The Tipton Three" are in Guantanamo where the whites-only British National Party expect to win new seats on the council. Rob, once a professional soccer player like his famous father, is now a tracksuited teaching assistant, and a schoolboy whom he is teaching to read is stabbed in a gang attack. Within this cauldron, two local soccer teams, split along racial lines, play a Sunday league decider, billed by the press as "a match to spark race war." While England plays Argentina for the World Cup, the characters gather—Rob, Glenn, Jim, Tom, and Stacey behind the bar—to see what hope and solidarity they still share.

A novel that captures the intensity of early 1980s politics and family life through the eyes of an unusual boy It is 1979 and Sean Bull is nine years old. He lives in Dudley, on the shores of a metal sea, where his dad and grandad come home each night from the steel factories. In an idyllic childhood Sean runs around with his friends, dreams of playing football and cricket for England, and enjoys his holidays at the caravan in Wales. When Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister, she slowly begins to take away everything he loves—somebody has to stop her. His Uncle Billy wants there to be a revolution, but that isn't going to start on its own, not with the Prime Minister fighting wars in South America and being voted for in bigger and bigger numbers, and not while she's guarded by her own secret army, the SAS. Sean comes to realize there is only one option open to him—he must kill Margaret Thatcher. This novel offers English twist on that most Latin American of genres, the dictator novel.

<p>The Cut is a commissioned novel responding to Brexit. Published on the first anniversary of the EU referendum on June 23rd 2017, it will be a fictional exploration of the forces that split Britain apart. ===== The Cut is a wound, of course, but it is more than that.Cairo Jukes walks the towpaths of "the cut", the Black Country term for the canals that web this small region of England, the open veins of an old industrial order. And then there is Dudley -a town at the heart of the Black Country - where a young woman runs through the market-place with her clothes on fire. Who she is? Why is she burning? And what part has Cairo played in her life? We follow these two characters across a single day in Brexit-era Britain. ===== 'I want to write this book because, like many people, in the days after the referendum I felt angry. But I quickly realized that my anger was different. I was outraged at a reaction which labelled seventeen and a half million people "stupid" or "racist" or simply lacking (too old, too poor, too far away from London, too white). In The Cut, I want to analyse the complex divisions undermining British society. We've been offered too many answers already, this is a story built on questions.' Anthony Cartwright ===== Why Peirene chose to commission this book:'The result of the EU referendum shocked me. I realized that I had been living in one part of a divided country. What fears - and what hopes - drove my fellow citizens to vote for Brexit? I commissioned Anthony Cartwright to build a fictional bridge between the Britains that opposed each other on referendum day.' Meike Ziervogel</p>

The Cut

Peirene Press

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The Afterglow

Heartland

How I Killed Margaret Thatcher

Heartland

How I Killed Margaret Thatcher

The Cut