with a review – by Chairman of Bloodaxe Books, and author of Not Quite White… Simon Thirsk: “Lisa Blower’s Sitting Ducks lifts the lid on the social curse of post industrial communities in twenty-first century Britain. Her writing cries out with the pain of an underclass whose characters’ lives are condemned by capitalism. This debut […]
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New Review for Sitting Ducks, the novel
Catherine Burgass – Reader of English at Staffordshire University says of Lisa Blower’s Sitting Ducks: I invite you to meet the Mintons – the once-proud backbone of industrial England – bowed, but not quite broken. Set in Stoke – the Potteries – once a hive of industry, now a site of social and economic deprivation, […]
What novel will you be reading next?
Anna Dreda – owner of the award-winning Wenlock Books has been reading Sitting Ducks: Lisa Blower’s debut novel. This is what she has to say about it: If that whets your appetite then pop into Wenlock Books in Much Wenlock, Shropshire ahead of its publication date and pick up your own […]
Book News here at Fair Acre Press
Sitting Ducks by Lisa Blower should arrive by courier at both Lisa, and Fair Acre Press’ door on 26th February Its official publication date is not until April 28th 2016 but it can be pre-ordered at Wenlock Books (go here) It is a wonderful novel of a family at the time of the 2010 election, […]
