Bumping Mary-Ann Constantine Andy Croft has edited several

Andy Croft has edited several collections for Five Leaves

Lake Geneva and Points West

About the editor:

He was Chair of the Arts Council Literature Panel and a member of the Irish Academy of Letters

Bumping Mary-Ann Constantine Andy Croft has edited severalNominated for the 2010 Portico Prize for Fiction Bumping, set on contemporary Tyneside, interweaves three stories. Each presents a character whose obsessions and attachments become magnified through chance encounters, leading to unforeseen and ultimately catastrophic results. The bumping of the title conveys something of these random processes, as well as one characters passion for recreational lock picking. The stories are told in a number of voices: