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Arcadia Books are pleased to congratulate Michael Arditti on the publication today of his ninth novel, Widows and Orphans. Recounting the story of Duncan, the editor of the Francome and Salter Mercury, a regional newspaper in a small sea-side town, this novel is a witty and warm portrait of the contemporary life.

Considering the press focus of the novel, it’s perhaps unsurprising that we have already had great reviews, and here are just a few:

‘It’s a better novel than most that do win prizes.  It is funny and moving and deeply engaging.’

            Alan Massie, The Scotsman

‘Brilliantly revealing… profoundly satisfying… very readable’  

            Helen Dunmore, Guardian

‘Arditti’s wit and typically breezy style keep the pages turning effortlessly’

            Stephanie Cross, The Lady

‘Michael Arditti is the Graham Greene of our time’

            Lucy Beresford, The Spectator

On Tuesday night, Daunts Marylebone played host to a launch party for Michael's book and Widows And Orphans is now available in all good bookshops and on Amazon priced at £14.99!

Monday 17th November

at 6pm

Adam House, Chambers Street, Edinburgh

Edward Wilson, author of The Envoy, A River in May, The Midnight Swimmer and The Whitehall Mandarin will be appearing at Scotland's Previously History Festival.

Historical novelists Andrew Williams, William Ryan and Edward Wilson discuss the shadow world of spies and secret policemen, from World War 1 to Vietnam.

Buy tickets at www.historyfest.co.uk

SUNDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2014.

Time

1.30pm 

Location

Artlink
87 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QP

Tickets

£4 / £3 
Available from: www.humbermouth.co.uk or 01482 300 300

IN 1989, eighteen-year-old John Finch spends his Saturdays following Nottingham Forest up and down the country and the rest of the week trudging the streets of his hometown as a postal worker. His blossoming relationship with girlfriend Jen is his only other respite. In 2004 he is teaching in a southern secondary school while delaying the inevitable onslaught of parenthood. Leading inexorably towards the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough, and the worst sporting disaster in British history, this book glides between 1989 and 2004, when the true impact of this tragic day becomes evident. Fan is a book about personal and collective tragedy. It’s about growing up and not growing up, about manhood and about what makes a man, and about football’s role in reflecting a society never more than a brick’s throw away from shattering point.

DANNY RHODES His short stories have appeared in magazines on both sides of the Atlantic and his debut novel, Asboville was published in October 2006. Well received by critics, it was selected as a Waterstone’s Paperback of the Year and it has been adapted for BBC Films by the dramatist Nick Leather. Rhodes’ second novel Soldier Boy was published in February 2009. Fan is Danny’s third novel. Danny Rhodes was at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989.

A percentage of profits from book sales will go to the Anfield Sports & Community Centre (ASCC), on behalf and in memory of the Hillsborough 96.