Forthcoming Titles from Tindal

In October 2001 Tindal Street Press publishes two very different new titles: Surviving Sting by Paul McDonald and Whispers in the Walls: New Black and Asian Voices from Birmingham edited by Leone Ross and Yvonne Brissett. Surviving Sting: 'Someone gets a duffel-coat toggle rammed up his nose' This brutal, absurd and hilarious novel by Paul McDonald will be launched at Walsall Leather Museum on Thursday 4 October 2001. It tells of the summertime 1979 adventures of 'Ace Face' wannabe Dave 'Mac' McVane who think he's got it made when luscious Joolz, the most shaggable girl in Walsall, invites him home after the Friday night disco. But will the woman of his dreams and a 'real' saddlemaker's job in the Happy Stallion make Mac the man he wants to be? Surviving Sting's cast list includes demented Billy-Bob and his twizzler parents, sociopathic Tezza, a boy named Sue, and Brainy Kev, red-wine drinker and swot. With the addition of a pet scorpion and an overdressed Yorkshire terrier to this Black Country brew a pacy comic nightmare takes over. About the Author Paul McDonald was born in Walsall, 'the ugliest town in the country'. After leaving school he worked for nearly ten years as a…

Whispers in the Walls: New Black and Asian Voices from Birmingham Collections of black and Asian writing are a rare event in British publishing; a regional anthology is unique. With its characteristically forthright Birmingham flavour, this spirited volume, edited by Leone Ross and Yvonne Brissett, brings together voices grounded in the life of a modern multicultural city. This unprecedented anthology has attracted excellent pre-publication praise. Benjamin Zephaniah recognised 'the beautiful language of real people This is the real deal'; Bonnie Greer praised 'This powerful and moving collection [which] does what the best short stories should do - provide a mirror into a less familiar world.' Courttia Newland found these 'exciting slices of lives never seen before enticing' while Debjani Chatterjee was delighted by 'stories that sparkle with the vitality of Birmingham'. Whispers in the Walls will be launched on Thursday 25 October 2001 at The Drum, Aston, Birmingham. About the Editors Leone Ross is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, All The Blood is Red (ARP, 1996) and Orange Laughter (Anchor Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000). Yvonne Brissett is a broadcast…

Spring 2002 sees the publication of three new Tindal Street Press titles: two novels and a collection of short fiction by women: Hard Way Out by John Dalton. This novel is a bleak crime thriller set in Birmingham's tangled underworld. Reformasi by Alan Brayne. Indonesia is the backdrop to this beautifully written modern mystery story. Her Majesty: an anthology of short stories by women that tells it like it is - clear-eyed, vigorous and about how we live now - edited by Jackie Gay and Emma Hargrave, with a foreword by Sadie Plant. The springboard for this anthology was a very successful Birmingham reading with writers such as Annie Murray, Julia Bell, Polly Wright and Helen Cross. We've received over 120 submissions - so many thanks to all those who sent us their stories. We were delighted by the range and quality of the stories, and by the enthusiastic response to an anthology that was more interested in strong narrative writing and real relationships than fluffy media lifestyle 'fiction', canap hells and kitten-heeled crises. Birmingham Noir, an anthology of short crime fiction with a dark urban edge edited by Joel Lane, will be published in October 2002.