Wayne Price was born in south Wales in 1965 and has lived and worked in Scotland since 1987. He has won many international prizes for his short stories and poetry and his work has been widely published in anthologies and journals including The Bridport Prize Anthology, Stand Magazine, Carve Magazine, Edinburgh Review and Gutter. He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Aberdeen.
'Wayne Price is a natural - one of those writers destined to be so from their arrival in the world. He has a natural understanding of people (what divides and what connects), and a natural ear for how they speak. This is a terrific debut collection of short stories, only proving how complete an author he already is.' Ronald Frame, author of The Lantern Bearers, Permanent Violet and Bluette Wayne Price celebrates ordinary lives where people can find themselves trapped in a confused and often terrifying present. These carefully constructed, honest stories capture a moment or event that will reverberate, revealing the ways dignity and stoicism help those who do not see themselves as victims endure feelings they are unable to describe or understand. They also herald a significant new arrival. Carl MacDougall, author of The Devil and The Giro, The Lights Below and The Casanova Papers 'These keenly observed stories probe fatherhood, sexuality, displacement and the unfathomable strangeness of the other, offering no easy solutions. Many are resolved with a Zen-like pulling away from the foreground action to contemplate a broader natural order or to reach for a universal, resonant image... And they always linger in the mind long after reading.' Brian McCabe, author of The Other McCoy, A Date with My Wife and Zero
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