After
£10.00
After is a collection of short stories about the world after Thatcher. Its depictions of the effects of neoliberal capitalism, selfishness and greed are often darkly comic, sometimes satirical, and always compelling.
After by Wayne Dean-Richards, illustrated by Tony Chenery, ISBN 9781918132090, 110 pps, £10 inc. p. and p.
Wayne Dean-Richards has had short stories published in magazines and anthologies in the UK and the US, and in five collections—including a previous collection, Money & Blood, published by Culture Matters.
Sharp, unpretentious, and fiercely intelligent, Dean-Richards captures British working-class life with the precision of the best kind of
literary minimalism. Resisting the easy certainties of overt polemic, his visceral, urgent stories are nonetheless uncompromisingly political, rooted in the everyday realities of people he knows and understands. He eschews ornamentation to reveal the raw heart of human connection, grief, and longing, offering a poetic testament to the enormous weight of everything left unsaid.
—Paul McDonald
After by Wayne Dean-Richards, illustrated by Tony Chenery, ISBN 9781918132090, 110 pps, £10 inc. p. and p. Also available as an ebook here
