Bloomsbury Publishing Short Stories 2012

Roshi Fernando - Homesick

jellycast — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:19:00 +0000

Winner of the Impress Award for New Writers 2009, Homesick is a stunning collection of linked stories following a tightly knotted community of Sri Lankan families in South London through the 1980s and 90s.

Jon McGregor reads from This Isn't The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You

jellycast — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:17:02 +0000

A new collection of short stories by multi award-winning and bestselling Jon McGregor, set in the fenlands of Lincolnshire. These delicate and sometimes deeply funny stories tell of things buried and unearthed, of familiar places made strange, and of lives where much is hidden.

D.W. Wilson reads from Once You Break A Knuckle

jellycast — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:15:57 +0000

The debut collection by the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2011, Once You Break A Knuckle crackles with tension and is propelled by jagged, cutting dialogue. Set in Western Canada the stories are an intoxicating cocktail of adrenaline and vulnerability, doggedness and dignity.

Lucy Wood reads from Diving Belles

jellycast — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:14:43 +0000

Widely critically acclaimed, Diving Belles is a spellbinding debut collection in which Cornish folklore slips into everyday life. Hopes, regrets and memories are entangled with catfish, wrecker's lamps, standing stones and baying hounds, and relationships wax and wane in the glow of a moonlit sea.

Bloomsbury Short Stories 2012

jellycast — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:21:41 +0000

A podcast from some of our short story writers of 2012 including bestselling and multi award-winning Jon McGregor, Impress Award winning Roshi Fernando, critically acclaimed Lucy Wood and BBC National Short Story Prize winning D.W. Wilson.