
Edited by Robin Jones | |
Price | £12 +p&p |
ISBN: | 978-0-9564223-6-1 |
Genre: | Fiction |
Pages: | 218 |
Published: | 1st November 2011 |
UNTHOLOGY No. 2 is the second of Unthank Books’ annual collection of unpredictable, unconventional short fiction. Like its predecessor, UNTHOLOGY No. 2 showcases established writers on great form and introduces exciting new voices. Its thirteen stories depend upon choices voluntary or otherwise, incarcerations and manic episodes and moments of doubt and transcendence. These are resonant tales for anxious times.
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Charles Dickens completed by David Madden | |
Price | £15 +p&p |
ISBN: | 978-0-9564223-3-0 |
Genre: | Fiction |
Pages: | 466 |
Published: | 1st October 2011 |
Sadly, when Charles Dickens died in 1870, he still had the second six of a planned twelve instalments of THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD to write. The only clues he left as to how he wanted to do this are contained in the first six. David Madden has accepted the challenge of ending it in the way Dickens intended.
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Edited by Christopher Bigsby | |
Price | £12.99 +p&p |
ISBN: | 978-0-9564223-5-4 |
Genre: | Non-fiction |
Pages: | 342 |
Published: | 15th September 2011 |
WRITERS IN CONVERSATION compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews with the world's greatest writers from a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University of East Anglia. These often candid, in-depth, witty and illuminating exchanges shine a light on the craft and profession of the working writer today.
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Edited by Christopher Bigsby | |
Price | £12.99 +p&p |
ISBN: | 978-0-9564223-4-7 |
Genre: | Non-fiction |
Pages: | 350 |
Published: | 15th September 2011 |
WRITERS IN CONVERSATION compiles Christopher Bigsby's interviews with the world's greatest writers from a decade of the Arthur Miller Centre's International Literary Festival at the University of East Anglia. These often candid, in-depth, witty and illuminating exchanges shine a light on the craft and profession of the working writer today.
Volume 3
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Nolan Kennedy is a young American teaching English in Istanbul and hanging out with his alcoholic friend Don Darius. Don might also be the greatest living American novelist judging by the script Kennedy finds in Don's trash. But Don has left town and Kennedy had better find him and persuade him to get serious about the book before Don decides to get serious about the vodka.
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Edited by Robin Jones | |
Price | £12 +p&p |
ISBN: | 978-0-9564223-1-6 |
Genre: | Fiction |
Pages: | 222 |
Published: | 1st December 2010 |
UNTHOLOGY NO.1 is the first in a series dedicated to showcasing unconventional, unpredictable and experimental stories. Containing seventeen pieces by brand new as well as established authors, this is a hard-hitting, hilarious and entertaining collection. Inside you will encounter a motley crew of animals, objects and even humans. These are tales that inject fresh venom into the shorter form.
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Ashley Stokes’s comic masterpiece stars Nathan Flack, a writer exiled in a backwater teaching creative writing to a group of high-maintenance cranks and fantasists. When a very literary ghost by the name of James O'Mailer starts to haunt Flack, he has to ask himself: is he sinking into a nether world of delusion, or is he actually O'Mailer's instrument?
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"Nick Sweeney is a special writer; erudite and cosmopolitan, simultaneously clever yet warm, droll yet melancholy. Laikonik Express has a range of references and obsessions that are much broader and more intriguing than those found in most contemporary novels. It is a meditative comedy, and also a great read."
- Geoff Nicholson -
"Nick Sweeney's Laikonik Express is one of those rare things: a debut novel that is both original and immediately recognisable as a work of true voice."
- Lee Rourke -
"Crisp, witty and scalpel-sharp, Touching the Starfish doesn't miss a trick in its arch depiction of the orthodoxies and absurdities of Creative Writing Programmes and the many varieties of pond-life to be found therein. It's deadly accurate too on the often hilarious miseries of the writing life."
- Lindsay Clarke -
"The work of an anarchic imagination stuffed with incident and mordantly humorous observations."
- Eastern Daily Press -
"Comic writing doesn’t get better than this."
- EssentialWriters.Com -
The Unthologists
Viccy Adams | Sandra Jensen | Mischa Hiller | CD Rose | Melinda Moore | James Carter | Lora Stimson | Martin Pond | Deborah Arnander | Sherilyn Connelly | Sarah Dobbs | Jenni Fagan | Maggie Ling | Tessa West | Karen Whiteson | Ashley Stokes | Michael Baker
"The art of short stories is very much alive and kicking."
- Eastern Daily Press -
David Leavitt | Doris Lessing | Penelope Lively | David Lodge | Javier Marias | Blake Morrison | Toni Morrison | John Mortimer…
Michael Ondaatje | Stephen Poliakoff | Irina Ratushinskaya | Salman Rushdie | Nawal El Saadawi | Jane Smiley | Alexander McCall Smith | Tom Stoppard…
Graham Swift | Amy Tan | Colm Tóibín | Claire Tomalin & Michael Frayn | Rose Tremain | Jane Urquhart | Peter Ustinov | Shirley Williams
Martin Amis | Alan Ayckbourn | John Banville | Cherie Blair | William Boyd | André Brink | Geraldine Brooks | A. S. Byatt…
Jung Chang | Louis de Bernières | Margaret Drabble | Richard Eyre | Richard Flanagan | Richard Ford | Jonathan Franzen…
David Guterson | Christopher Hampton | David Hare | Michael Holroyd | Christopher Hope | Clive James | Hanif Kureishi
Maintaining Dickens’s repertoire of comedy, psychological acuity, inimitable description and turn of phrase is no easy task but David Madden has proved equal to it.
Dickens’s original is published here with David Madden’s astonishing completion following on seamlessly.
The Unthologists
Joshua Allen | Sarah Evans | Shanta Everington | Paul A. Green | Lander Hawes | Ian Madden | Melissa Mann | M. Pinchuk | Stephanie Reid | Ashley Stokes | Nick Sweeney | Tessa West | Charles Wilkinson
Praise for Unthology No.1
"The art of short stories is very much alive and kicking."
- Eastern Daily Press -
Praise for Unthology No.1
"A well put-together collection showcasing interesting writers in an unrestricted and playful place."
- The Short Review -