Steve Connolly
Steve Connolly grew up in Scotland and South Africa but now lives in
the Cotswolds with his wife and son. He has had stories published in
The New Writer and Quiet Feather and is currently working on a novel.
Was published in -
The Better Craftsman & Other Stories
Short Story Anthology
Price £6.99 + £1 p&p
Format: Demi 111 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-905599-31-8
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‘That was how Christina had first seen him, imagining him at first to be some offbeat academic conducting his tutorial in the open air. Only gradually did she learn that Peake was no lecturer, or leastways was not on any faculty’s payroll. While occasionally he might attend a public lecture, it would be to sit it out impatient for the question and answer session, which he would use to interrogate the speaker to the point of distress or, indeed, beyond it.’
– Extract from ‘The Better Craftsman’.
The Better Craftsman & Other Stories contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Summer Short Story Competition. The ten unremittingly brilliant tales nestling within cover subjects as diverse as a student’s getting the most out of a maverick academic, a couple’s raising a family in a never-ending traffic jam and a landlubberly boy’s first visit to the seaside.