Item category 2: Local Authors Collection

Editorial, BFS news, short stories, poetry and illustrations. Includes winning entries from the BFS 2014 short story competition. The runner up, Nikki Pratt, is a Medway resident and local author.

Monica was on the corporate ladder striving to be a high-flying executive, but when the misogynistic bullying from the privileged pale stale males becomes too much she snaps and quits on the spot. At her lowest ebb, a chance remark from her charming slacker brother Paddy identifies a business opp...

When Mark Poynter discovers a murder on his worksite all of his financial problems suddenly seem a lot closer to home: was this a warning his debts are overdue? Suspected of being the killer and worried at being the intended victim, the murder only makes Mark's money problems worse, leading him t...

Apparently written by the backward schoolboy Gustov Claudius, 'The Idiocy of Idears' is a book of pathos and sarcasm, presenting a brutal picture of late 20th-century secondary school education.

In this fourth collection of stories about country life in the 1930s, Joan Kent again recreates the enchanting yet difficult days of her childhood in Kent.