Jonathan Buckley shortlisted for BBC National Short Story Award

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Sort of Books congratulate Jonathan Buckley on his short story Briar Road being shortlisted for the prestigious BBC National Short Story Award 2015. bbcnssa_2015_logo_web

Chair of the judging panel, Allan Little, described Briar Road yesterday on BBC R4 Front Row, as ‘tremendously effective with a slow, understated, gradual reveal . . . very strong, very subtle . . . the atmosphere that builds up is tremendously powerful and offers a twist you just don’t see coming.”

Jonathan Buckley’s novels have been described as ‘intensely compassionate’ and ‘astoundingly observed’. His latest, the river is the river, (Sort of Books, July 2015) is considered his ‘most perfect yet’. (James McConnachie,The Author).