Comma Press present
the launch of
The Book of Liverpool
a city in short fiction
Ed. by Maria Crossan & Eleanor Rees
with readings from
Dinesh Allirajah, Tracy Aston & Ramsey Campbell
at The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool, L1 3BX.
THU 29 MAY
7.30pm
£4/£3.
The Book of Liverpool features ten stories by Beryl Bainbridge, Brian Patten, Clive Barker, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Ramsey Campbell, Paul Farley, Margaret Murphy, Dinesh Allirajah, James Friel, and Tracy Aston.
Bringing together fiction from some of the city’s most celebrated writers, The Book of Liverpool traces the unique contours that decades of social and economic change can impress on a city. Set against key historical moments from the Second World War to the Capital of Culture year, these stories question what ‘belonging’ and ‘home’ mean in the Liverpudlian context, from the regenerated city centre to satellite suburbs, from the sparring cathedrals to the no-go concrete housing estates. Liverpool emerges in these stories as a city in constant flux: haunted by ghosts, buoyed up by myths, and shifting with an ebb and flow like the Mersey itself.
More info on the book, an the chance to purchase an early copy here.