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Train in the Night Anthology

What has a boy with leukemia got to do with an oil rig fire?
What’s the connection between an aged boxer and a wild gypsy boy?
What has a Spanish love affair got to do with an unexpected death on a mini-digger?
It can only be a collection of entertaining short stories from a collection of new writers [...]

iPhone & iPad

Literary Festival: A World First

I am thrilled to announce the winner of this year’s Guildford Book Festival Short Story competition. As far as we know, it’s a world first for any literary festival for the winning story to be converted into an iPhone app.
It’s called Train in the Night by Christopher Franks who hails from Cambridgeshire.

It’s a captivating tale of [...]

Happenings

Guildford Book Festival Short Story Competition

The Bookwright is thrilled to be sponsoring this year’s Guildford Book Festival Short Story award.
The prize is fabulous and, as far as we know, a first for any literary competition anywhere in the world.
The winning entry will be converted into an iPhone app that can be either read or listened to – we call these Commutabooks.

The [...]