Authors: Adrian Wilson, Daithidh MacEochaidh, Marcia Hutchinson, Susan Everett, Andy Campbell, M Y Alam

It's official: local writing, as we expect it to be, no longer exists. Tubthumping, which introduces the work of seventeen new Yorkshire writers, is here to prove it.

Human preoccupations – love and hate, anger and betrayal, lust and longing – are played out against a panoramic backdrop that would have been inconceivable before now. Edited by Adrian Wilson with an introduction by Alice Nutter of Chumbawamba.

"The selection has been blatantly made on the grounds of quality. It can be recommended confidently."
Artscene

"The strength in these stories is the way they reflect the times and refute the sterotypes."
Alice Nutter

"Writing is never going to be the same again, a constantly surprising and challenging read."
Yorkshire Evening Press