Adam Biles in conversation with Ian Dunt in Waterstones Trafalgar Square, 20 September 2023 to launch Beasts Of England.

Many thanks from us to Ian and to Waterstones Trafalgar for providing such a fantastic venue and hospitality.

Toby Litt reads Oh Whistle And... by Uschi Gatward.

Oh Whistle And... comes from Uschi's superb new collection of stories English Magic, which is available now in our online store (www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-sho…english-magic) and from all good booksellers.

You might also enjoy reading this fantastic Q&A with Uschi: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/qa-uschi-gatw…english-magic

Alex Pheby reads The Clinic by Uschi Gatward.

The clinic comes from Uschi's superb new collection of stories English Magic, which is available now in our online store (https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-shop/english-magic) and from all good booksellers.

You might also enjoy reading this fantastic Q&A with Uschi: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/qa-uschi-gatward-english-magic

Edward Hogan, reads Single Sit, the winner of the 2021 Galley Beggar Press short story prize.

There's also a conversation between Edward and GBP co-director Sam Jordison about the story, about writing and about selling conservatories. Among other things... It's a long one!

You can find out more about Edward's novel The Electric here: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/edward-hogan/the-electric/9781473669567/?v2=true

Here’s Edward's OU page:

http://www.open.ac.uk/research/people/ewh47

And here's the lowdown on the GBP prize: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

A piece I wrote for the book A Love Letter To Europe, published by Coronet in 2020. It's about how great twin towns can be - even if (especially if!) you're a cynical teenager in the North of England in the 1990s.

(Photo is from a school play. I was Lane the butler in The Importance Of Being Earnest. That's why I'm dressed all posh.)

Vijay Khurana reads his superb 2019-2020 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize shortlisted story, About Suffering.

For more about Vijay, visit: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/2020-ssp-khurana-3qs

You can read About Suffering for yourself here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/2020-ssp-khurana-about-suffering

And here's his story Zenith:https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/2019-ssp-stories-khurana-zenith

For more details on the prize in general, and to read our archive of longlisted stories, visit this page: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/prize

Enjoy!

Adam Biles reads his short story Scylla And Charybdis.

Adam's novel Feeding Time is available here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/shop-1/wzoo6sfs1kywu2cn9zzxgud574rsxw (There's a preview chapter to read. It's a blast.)

The National Centre For Writing and Norwich helped us finance this podcast - and we're very grateful. You can find out about their fine work here: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/

Gerry Feehily describes Paris during the first days of lockdown. It's incredible. Just listen already.

You can subscribe to our newsletter by visiting www.galleybeggar.co.uk - you'll also find Gerry's story Gunk there, if you can't wait for it to arrive by email...

The National Centre For Writing, who I mention at the end (under their old name of The Writers Centre! Oops!) have a lot of really good activities and resources available during lockdown: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk

"I last saw Jeet at the last public event I attended before the UK’s pandemic lockdown – it was in London, for a memorial. After the service, we drank, and talked; and mingled briefly in the crowd; we parted without saying goodbye.

So this book as an object holds layers of meaning: memories of travel and of both happy and sad times spent with friends."

Preti Taneja thinks about the writer Jeet Thayil and reads from Fulcrum NO. 4, an edition in which Thayil edited a selection of 56 Indian poets under the (beautiful!) title Give the Sea Change and It Shall Change.

Writers Preti references include: Henry Derozio, Nissim Ezekiel, Srikanth Reddy, Mukta Sambrani. She also discusses Threads, by Sandeep Parmar, Bhanu Kapil and Nisha Ramayya and Debt Night, a piece she herself wrote in Detours.

Links:

FULCRUM No. 4, 2005

http://fulcrumpoetry.com/issues/4/index.html

THREADS:

https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/threads-sandeep-parmar-bhanu-kapil-and-nisha-ramayya

HOTEL CORDEL/ DETOURS (for Debt Night)

https://partisanhotel.co.uk/Hotel-Cordel-Detours

To find out more about Jeet Thayil, visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeet_Thayil

And here's a conversation with Preti and Jeet: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/feb/09/jeet-thayil-interview-man-booker-narcopolis-book-chocolate-saints

Preti's novel We that are young is available here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/new-page-1

Alex Pheby reads chapter one of his forthcoming novel, Mordew.

You can pre-order Mordew here: https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-shop/mordew

If you do, we'll also give you a secret password to enable you to listen to the entire book as Alex reads it in weekly instalments.

Alternatively, you can subscribe to those instalments on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=7263656