Publisher's Synopsis
This tenth volume features work by Louis de Bernières, Helen Simpson and Barbara Trapido. Through its annual anthologies of new writing the British Council launches many new authors and provides a shop window around the world in which vigorous new writing can be viewed. New Writing 10 is the new volume in this series previously published by Vintage UK, promoting the best in contemporary literature in the English language in Britain and the rest of the Commonwealth. It brings together some of the most formidable talents, placing new names alongside more established ones, and includes extracts from novels in progress, short stories, poetry and short fiction. Distinctive, innovative and entertaining, it is essential reading for all those interested in British writing today.
