Hometown Tales: Lancashire by Jenn Ashworth

Hometown Tales: Lancashire by Jenn Ashworth

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Hometown Tales: Celebrating regional voices Two powerful pieces of fiction set in Preston and Manchester

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Hometown Tales: Lancashire by Jenn Ashworth

Original tales by remarkable writers Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home. In these pages on Lancashire, you'll find two unique tales. 'After the Funeral, the Crawl' is an arresting portrait of a couple forced to confront a dark secret over the course of a pub crawl one night in Preston, by award-winning novelist Jenn Ashworth. 'JUDAS!' is a vivid, coming-of-age story that traces the political and cultural history of Manchester, from its industrial past to its eventual separation from the county, by Benjamin Webster.

Jenn Ashworth was born in 1982 in Preston. She studied English at Cambridge and since then has gained an MA from Manchester University, trained as a librarian and run a prison library in Lancashire. She now lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster. Her first novel, A KIND OF INTIMACY, was published in 2009 and won a Betty Trask Award. Her second, COLD LIGHT, was published by Sceptre in 2011 and she was chosen by BBC's The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New British Novelists. Her most recent novels are THE FRIDAY GOSPELS and FELL. She lives in Lancaster.

Benjamin Webster received the Northern Writers' Award for fiction in 2016. Born in Lancashire and now living in Yorkshire, JUDAS! is his first published work.

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ISBN 13 9781474608237
ISBN 10 147460823X
Title Hometown Tales: Lancashire
Author Jenn Ashworth
Series Hometown Tales
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Orion Publishing Co
Year published 2018-06-28
Number of pages 192
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.