A new collection of short stories from the acclaimed South Shields writer Alex Ferguson again focussing on the author’s part-real part-mythical Uncle Freddie, and again located in the Jarrow of the 1930s where the author grew up. Ferguson’s writing is a unique amalgam of the starkly real – the terrible poverty of wartime Tyneside, and the surreally imaginative – meeting such famous characters as the Prince of Wales or Joe Stalin upstairs on a no.38 bus en route to Hebburn. IRON Press published Ferguson’s story collection The Pineapple King of Jarrow in 2004, which rapidly sold out. That work was dramatised by the award-winning BBC Radio Four producer Melanie Harris, who is again planning to dramatise the new collection, this time for the stage with her own successful indie production company.
ISBN: 978-0-9552450-8-4
£10.00
