Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Hilary Mantel – The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher August 6th 1983
• Julianne Pachico – Lucky
• Bee Lewis – The Iron Men
• Jonathan Gibbs – Festschrift
• Jenn Ashworth – Five Thousand Lads a Year
• Neil Campbell – LS Lowry/ Man Lying on a Wall
• Emma Cleary – Lightbox
• Jim Hinks – Green Boots’ Cave
• Uschi Gatward – The Clinic
• Tracey S Rosenberg – May the Bell Be Rung For Harriet
• Helen Simpson – Strong Man
• Matthew Sperling – Voice Over
• K J Orr – The Lake Shore Limited
• Tamar Hodes – The First Day
• Alan Mccormick – Go Wild in the Country
• Helen Marshall – Secondhand Magic
• Charles Wilkinson – Fresh Water
• Rebecca Swirsky – The Common People
• Alison Moore – Eastmouth
• Julianne Pachico – The Tourists
• Joanna Walsh – Worlds From the Word’s End
• Contributors’ Biographies
• Acknowledgements

About the Author

Nicholas Royle was born in Manchester in 1963. He is the author of seven novels, including: Counterparts, Saxophone Dreams, and First Novel, and a short story collection, Mortality. He has edited sixteen anthologies, including A Book of Two Halves and Neonlit: Time Out Book of New Writing.

Reviews

Nicholas Lezard’s paperback choice: Hilary Mantel’s fantasia about the assassination of Margaret Thatcher leads this year’s collection of familiar and lesser known writers.
*The Guardian*