Night Geometry And The Garscadden Trains

May 4, 2025 8:00 AM

Author:A.L. Kennedy

The heroes and heroines of Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains, A. L. Kennedy's first collection of stories, are small people - the kind who inhabit the silence in libraries, who never appear on screen and who never make the headlines. Often alone and sometimes lonely, her characters ponder the mysteries of sex and death... and the ability of public transport to affect our lives.

Reviews

A. L. Kennedy is one of the most brilliant writers of her generation

—— Sunday Telegraph

This woman is a profound writer

—— Richard Ford

A collection of fifteen exquisite and troubling tales... It is a particular delight to discover a writer as original as A. L. Kennedy

—— Mail on Sunday

The clarity, wit and description of her style are uplifting... A writer in her thirties, who is becoming one of Britain's best

—— The Times

A writer of linguistic brilliance, balm-bearing humanity and blissful originality

—— Scotsman

Kennedy writes with flaying precision about things we won't often admit to ourselves, let alone speak aloud

—— Daily Mail

KNOCKEMSTIFF by Donald Ray Pollock is the best book I have ever read. This is the America they don't let you see on television. This is real literature. It will be read for centuries

—— Michael Guinzburg

It's as if you put David Lynch, Denis Johnson, and a drunk speed freak body builder into a blender. The result are some of the darkest, wildest, most messed up, hilarious stories I've ever read. Knockemstiff is really something

—— Willy Vlautin

This short story collection gives those new to her oeuvre a chance to delve into gems from her past...precociously vibrant

—— Melissa McClements , Financial Times

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