**A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain.'Totally engrossing and deliciously feisty' Bernardine Evaristo'Staggering**... An absolute inspiration' Douglas Stewart, Herald'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense of being 'lowborn' no matter how far you've come?'...

The new memoir from Kerry Hudson about her struggle to build a safe, loving home for her baby – the very opposite of the home she grew up in...‘Absorbing’ Irish Times‘Filled with colour’ Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun‘A rallying cry’ HeraldHow do you build a family without a blueprint to work from?Kerry Hudson grew up in poverty. Always on the move, shuttled between the ca...

Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Sky Arts Awards, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year, the Portsmouth First Fiction Award and the Green Carnation Prize'More than just one of the best debuts of the year; one of the best books of the year. It should do for Aberdeen what Trainspotting did for Edinburgh' Louise Welsh, HeraldWhen Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the la...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Lowborn by Kerry Hudson.What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense of being ‘lowborn’ no matter how far you’ve come?’

Quella di Janie Ryan è la storia di un'infanzia irrequieta, trascorsa tra appartamenti sordidi e case popolari fatiscenti, tra alcol, droghe e code per il sussidio di disoccupazione, al traino di una madre immatura e molto, molto instabile. Janie si rifugia nella sua collezione cenciosa di giocattoli, in dosi massicce di patatine fritte e gelati, accettando come normale routine la turbolenta vita sentimentale di una donna sempre in bilico tra depressione ed eccitazione, scontri violenti e ...

Brought to you by Penguin.The new memoir from Kerry Hudson about her struggle to build a safe, loving home for her baby – the very opposite of the home she grew up in...How do you build a family without a blueprint to work from?Kerry Hudson grew up in poverty. Always on the move, shuttled between the care system and her chaotic mother, she left school at 15 without qualifications. Now a prize-winning writer, she loo...

From the prize-winning author of Tony Hogan Bought Me An Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My MaWinner of the Prix Femina EtrangerLondon, in the frayed heat of summer. Alena is shoplifting shoes when Dave catches her in the act and so begins an unlikely relationship between two people with little in common and everything to lose.But the past is a dark place. And both of them have secrets they’ve no idea how to live with – or ...

Dalla Siberia, Alena parte per Londra con il sogno di trovare un lavoro, un amore e nuove avventure da vivere. Ciò che l'aspetta appena atterrata nel Regno Unito è però molto diverso da quello che aveva in mente. Dave, cresciuto a Londra in un quartiere di case popolari, sognava di girare il mondo, e invece si ritrova imprigionato nella sua città, reduce da un matrimonio naufragato e schiavo di un lavoro che gli permette di sbarcare il lunario ma non gli dà nessuna soddisfazione. Alena e D...

Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, the Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year and the Green Carnation Prize‘More than just one of the best debuts of the year; one of the best books of the year. It should do for Aberdeen what Trainspotting did for Edinburgh’ Louise Welsh, HeraldWhen Janie Ryan is born, she is destined to be the latest in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives.

The beginning of a relationship is usually all about getting to know each other. Not so for Dave and Alena. He's from London, she's from Siberia. They meet in a slick Bond Street department store, where she's up to no good and it's his job to catch her. So begins an unlikely relationship between two people with pasts, with secrets. But despite everything they don't have in common, they’re still fighting for a future together.

An ice cream van rolls into a war zone. A goldfish pleads with its owner, who has seasonal affective disorder. An advertising agency of the future struggles to capture the zombie market. A woman screams silently at a pair of social workers who visit to talk about her anorexic daughter.Brought together for the first time and introduced by prize-winning novelist Kerry Hudson, The Forge Anthology is a collection of over 30 pieces of startling and thought-provoking flash fiction from t...

How do you write a novel?Practising novelists and teachers of creative writing reveal their working methods and offer practical advice. Subjects covered range from magic realism to characterisation, surrealism to historical fiction, via perspective, plot twists and avoiding being boring, among many others.This book is forcreative writing studentswriters and readers of novelsteachers of creative writingWith co...