The Pier Falls: And Other Stories

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

With thanks to Clare Alexander, Quinn Bailey, Suzanne Dean, Sos Eltis, Paul Farley, William Fiennes, Kevin Foster, Dan Franklin, Kathy Fry, Sunetra Gupta, Alissa Land, Kevin Leahy, Toby Moorcroft, Debbie Pinfold, Simon Stephens, Bill Thomas, the Jericho Café, and Modern Art Oxford.

“The Island” was published in Ox-Tales Fire (Oxfam/Profile Books, 2009). “The Gun” was published in the “Britain” issue of Granta magazine in 2012. It was also short-listed for the 2013 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and won an O. Henry Prize in 2014. “The Pier Falls” was published in the New Statesman in 2014 and was long-listed for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award in 2015. “Bunny” was the runner-up for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2015. “The Weir” was published in The New Yorker in 2015.