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One For The Trouble - Book Slam Volume One

One For The Trouble Cover'Varied, clever, memorable and impressive ... Book Slam has always been a force for literary good and 'One For The Trouble' is no exception. The book is being billed as an 'annual': may this be the first of many.'
Alice Fisher - The Observer

'One For The Trouble - Book Slam Volume One' is our first annual, a collection of newly commissioned stories and poetry from some of our illustrious alumni, available as hardback, eBook, Audiobook and, shortly, multiplatform app.

The cloth bound, foil embossed physical edition is a thing of considerable beauty, immaculately conceived by the brilliant Robi Walters. We've printed a limited run of 1500, individually numbered, and each signed by every short story writer. Please note: you can only buy a maximum of six books per order from this website as we want to make the limited run as widely available as possible. If you really want more? Do contact Bernie directly and we'll try to make a plan. Books will be sent by First Clast post (to the UK) and Airmail (overseas). Please allowed 28 days for delivery. You can also buy 'One For The Trouble' exclusively from one good bookshop - our dear friends at Waterstones Notting Hill Gate. This is a book with bare swagger.

 

The digital editions have barely less swagger. The eBook is available as both EPUB (iPad etc) and Kindle versions, while we’re especially proud of the Audiobook, which features every writer reading their own work, apart from Andrew Scott reading Irvine Welsh, Olivia Colman reading William Boyd, Chris O’Dowd reading Paul Murray and Mark Strong reading Patrick Ness. You can buy the digital edition as eBook (£1.99), Audiobook (£2.99) or as a bundle of both (£3.99).

 

The idea for ‘One For The Trouble’ was simple: Book Slam has always featured the best live music and we wanted to reflect that in our first steps into publishing. So, we set our contributors the task of taking a song title for inspiration. Some took this literally (Jon McGregor’s moving reimagining of A House’s ‘Endless Art’), others suggestively (who’d have thought Grandmaster Flash’s ‘The Message’ would lead Paul Murray to a heartbreaking tale of Irish schoolboy rugby?). But, all have delivered interesting, engaging, remarkable work … You can get a taste of what it’s all about by buying an eBook/ Audiobook bundle of individual stories below for just 99p. Or listen to Patrick’s preface and a couple of the poems, free, gratis and for nothing. We think ‘One For The Trouble’ is a beautiful thing to own and to give and we’re very proud of it. Thank you, as ever, for your support.

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