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Wrote For Luck Round-up

19 February 2015

 
 
I’m delighted to say that our gamble in launching a line of print short story collections appears to be paying off. The tender melancholy of DJ Taylor’s Wrote For Luck is touching reviewers too. Other people love it! There are few better pleasures for a publisher. He’s been getting just the applause he deserves, which makes the joy and honour of working on this book all the sweeter. Here’s a sample of the feedback he's been getting:

Wrote For Luck: Stories

26 January 2015

We have a new book out. We love it. So do other people. The Guardian say: “Taylor has a great knack of pulling the reader in, and his endings, which spin out into rather mournful, very British epiphanies, linger long in the mind.” We Love This Book say: “In the end the collection itself should be considered the frame in which a collage hangs, each scene creating something bigger than its constituent parts.

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