Hometown Tales Lancashire, Jenn Ashworth
Hometown Tales Lancashire, Jenn Ashworth
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Hometown Tales: Lancashire

Author: Jenn Ashworth, Benjamin Webster

Narrator: Dean Williamson

Unabridged: 4 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/28/2018


Synopsis

Original tales by remarkable writers

Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home.

In these pages on Lancashire, you'll find two unique tales. An arresting portrait of a couple coming home to Lancashire, set over a pub crawl one night in Preston, written by award-winning novelist Jenn Ashworth. And, from new voice Benjamin Webster, a vivid coming-of-age story that traces the political and cultural history of Manchester, from its industrial past to its eventual separation from the county.

Read by Dean Williamson

(p) Orion Publishing Group 2018

About Jenn Ashworth

Jenn Ashworth was born in 1982 in Preston. She studied English at Cambridge and since then has gained an MA from Manchester University, trained as a librarian and run a prison library in Lancashire. She now lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster. Her first novel, A KIND OF INTIMACY, was published in 2009 and won a Betty Trask Award. Her second, COLD LIGHT, was published by Sceptre in 2011 and she was chosen by BBC's The Culture Show as one of the twelve Best New British Novelists. Her most recent novels are THE FRIDAY GOSPELS and FELL. She lives in Lancaster.

About Benjamin Webster

Benjamin Webster received the Northern Writers' Award for fiction in 2016. Born in Lancashire and now living in Yorkshire, JUDAS! is his first published work.

About Dean Williamson

Dean Williamson is a professional actor with a great deal of experience in Film, TV and Theatre.Voice work includes film and TV dubbing, corporate and commercial work, as well as audio guides and audio books. Previous audio books include Hell's Fire, The Edge and Cut Adrift by Chris Simms, Even The Dogs by Jon McGregor and The Water Theatre by Lindsay Clarke.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Maura

A curate's egg. Do you know the story? It's from a Punch cartoon of 1895. A young curate (traditionally lowest in the pecking order in Church of England hierarchy, and required to defer to everyone, if he knew what was good for him) was breakfasting with the Bishop, who served him a bad egg. The Bis......more

Goodreads review by Ms6282

A book of two halves to misquote a common sporting cliche. I enjoyed the Jen Ashworth story but just couldn’t get into Ben Webster’s contribution......more

Goodreads review by Gillian

The three stars are because I really liked the first story in the book a lot. The second story I had to abandon very quickly because the style of the writing wasn't to my taste.......more