Hometown Tales: Lancashire by Jenn Ashworth - ISBN: 9781474608237
Hardcover
Lancashire: Powerful stories of home, secrets, and coming-of-age.

Hometown Tales: Lancashire

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  • Hardcover

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    28 June 2018

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Summary

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 ar…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781474608237
ISBN-10:147460823X
Author:Jenn Ashworth, Benjamin Webster
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:28 June 2018
Weight:301g
Dimensions:208mm x 144mm x 21mm
Series:Hometown Tales
About The Author

Jenn Ashworth

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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