Biting Point, 9780571398829
Paperback
Hull’s traffic, class, and anger collide, forging unexpected connections.

Biting Point

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  • Paperback

    80 pages

  • Release Date

    8 May 2025

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Summary

Biting Point: A Collision of Class, Race, and Modern Life

Look, you won’t know me. But you will. I want you to know me, you see. I want you to know me in the way I know these roads around us, the roundabouts in surround sound, the bridges, the cut-throughs, the one-way systems, the water.

Supermarket driver John and property manager Anita spend their working days in Hull’s endless traffic, trying to keep ahead of targets and ticking clocks. Driven to distraction by substit…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780571398829
ISBN-10:0571398820
Author:Sid Sagar
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Imprint:Faber & Faber
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:80
Release Date:8 May 2025
Weight:98g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm
About The Author

Sid Sagar

Sid Sagar is an actor, playwright and screenwriter from an Indian background. He grew up in England from the age of eight. He read History at the University of Bristol and trained on numerous writing programmes, run by Soho Theatre, the London Library, Hampstead Theatre, the Almeida Theatre and Channel 4.

As an actor, he won an Eastern Eye Award for Best Actor for his performance in Kenneth Lonergan’s The Starry Messenger in the West End, as well as an AudioFile Earphones Award for his narration of Salman Rushdie’s Victory City. Other credits include Ballet Shoes (National Theatre), Cabaret (West End) and Slow Horses (Apple TV+).

As a writer, his work includes Middle Men and John from Hemel (both BBC Radio 4). His first short film, Baked Beans, was produced by BFI NETWORK and was selected for festivals in the UK and internationally. He has been part of writers’ rooms for Channel 4 and CBeebies and is developing a variety of projects for stage and screen.

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