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Jon McGregor, who lives in Nottingham, is the author of the critically acclaimed If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, So Many Ways to Begin and Even the Dogs. He has won several awardsand has twice been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. This is his first volume of short stories.
A man builds a tree house by a river, in anticipation of the coming flood. A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen.  A boy sets fire to a barn. These aren't the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you, but sometimes they do.
The stories are set in the flat fenland landscape of Lincolnshire, where the sky is dominant and the sea lurks just beyond the horizon. These delicate and sometimes deeply funny stories tell of things buried and unearthed, of familiar places made strange, and of lives where much is hidden, much is at risk, and tender moments are hard-won.

Paperback £14.99

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This examines the origins of the almshouse tradition in Nottinghamshire and looks at the provision of almshouses from earliest times until 1919.  In many cases details are given of the people who provided the houses and the people who benefitted. There are also numerous photographs throughout the book.

Paperback £9.50

Derrick Buttress is well known as a poet and his poems have been widely published in magazines and in three collections by Shoestring Press.  This is his first collection of short stories.

“Derrick Buttress enjoys telling stories – getting the atmosphere, the lingo, the voice.” Judy Gahagan, Ambit

Paperback  £7.50