The Book of Sheffield

Featuring Margaret Drabble, Tim Etchells, Naomi Frisby, Philip Hensher, Helen Mort, Geoff Nicholson, Gregory Norminton, Johny Pitts, Désirée Reynolds & Karl RiordanKnown for both its industrial roots and arboreal abundance, Sheffield has always been a city of two halves.Bringing together fiction from some of the city’s most celebrated writers, The Book of Sheffield traces the unique contours that decades of social and economic change can impress on a city. From the city’s grand villas, elegant parks and botanical gardens to the brutalist 1960s high-rise estates, these stories take the reader a literary tour of this vibrant, but often divided contemporary city.Evoking the past, present and future of Sheffield, this is a timely collection of new stories from ten writers for whom the city is - or once was - home, and who have found it's landscape and history, the city and its surroundings, ripe for creative interpretation.