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This collection serves up 11 nasty bits of Brit Grit for you to sample. They're not going to go down easy, but you don't want that, right? You didn't come here for sparkly vampires, boy wizards, and easy reading - you can get that elsewhere. No, you're here for stories that grab your nuts and don't let go. Tales that beat you down and do nasty things to you while you're out cold. That's what I'm giving you here - and you'll take it and like it!
A security guard gets more than he bargained for when he pays a visit to The Carpenter's Arms; two women cause all manner of mayhem when they suffer from a bout of Bus Rage; a mother's death brings about a permanent rift between brother and sister in The Short Goodbye; and the Stanton brothers cut a kneecapping, bone-breaking, ball-busting, sweary swathe through the underworld in The Greatest Show in Town, The Beautiful Game, One Sixteenth and The Fight.
This is strong stuff for readers who like their fiction dark, violent and plain-spoken.
As one reviewer put it on the Amazon UK website: Martin Stanley has what so many self-published authors lack. ..the ability to write really well at sentence level. For me this means that there's nothing to jar, no self-conscious arranging of uncomfortable words and you're not reading chunks of somebody's prose, you're watching scenes play out before you. Mr Stanley has real talent...
Grab this collection in the US here
or in the UK
A security guard gets more than he bargained for when he pays a visit to The Carpenter's Arms; two women cause all manner of mayhem when they suffer from a bout of Bus Rage; a mother's death brings about a permanent rift between brother and sister in The Short Goodbye; and the Stanton brothers cut a kneecapping, bone-breaking, ball-busting, sweary swathe through the underworld in The Greatest Show in Town, The Beautiful Game, One Sixteenth and The Fight.
This is strong stuff for readers who like their fiction dark, violent and plain-spoken.
As one reviewer put it on the Amazon UK website: Martin Stanley has what so many self-published authors lack. ..the ability to write really well at sentence level. For me this means that there's nothing to jar, no self-conscious arranging of uncomfortable words and you're not reading chunks of somebody's prose, you're watching scenes play out before you. Mr Stanley has real talent...
Grab this collection in the US here
or in the UK 
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