Attrib: and other stories

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Review ------ "... composed in sentences that border on pure poetry exactly the kind of unusual, exciting book that indie publishers like Influx Press excel at producing." Amy's Ever-Growing Bookshelf "The debut collection of short stories fixates on the briefest moments of confusion and miscommunication the kind of exchanges that feel so vivid, but look so mundane from the outside... Williams brings these moments of internal intensity into the spotlight, with 170 pages that positively glow." --Fader "Fiddling with words, as if playing with them were all that mattered, her characters draw time to a standstill then they stop, suddenly, blinking and thrilled. It's beautiful, the way they get lost." The Guardian "Funny, playful and utterly bravura, it deserves to be read by everyone with a love of words and an interest in the way deftly wielded language and original ideas can come together to detonate on the page." Melissa Harrison, Financial Times "It's just the real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing this book. I love it in a way I usually reserve for people." Max Porter, author of Grief Is The Thing With Feathers "The possibilities these stories imply are many, one of them being that you, the reader, could be their unnamed narrator. That's why, like all good literature, they feel so personal, immediate and incredibly urgent." New Humanist "Williams' writerly roots in poetry and poetic prose shine throughout this stunning collection of almost intimidatingly intelligent and creative work." Mslexia"So good it makes me giddy. For God's sake, buy a copy." Caught by the River "...a joyous collection of moments, of love, of language, with such a light, skilled touch." Aliya Whiteley, author of The Beauty "These are stories that are so repeatedly re-readable for their humour, their humanity and their sheer revelry in the textual matter of the language from which they are made: the physical, pleasurable, palpable, enigmatic and unguent words and all they carry with them." The Contemporary Small Press Williams USP (even, at times, brilliance), is to drop us in on lives at seemingly innocuous moments - and then wrong-foot the reader, contort the unfolding story, and ultimately distil something elemental from the seemingly banal." 3:AM "Nearly every sentence here dazzles with somersaults. Minor Literature(s )"Williams writing is emotionally engaged and linguistically playful. This collection has been highly accled for all the right reasons it is gorgeous, moving, intelligent, it contains striking images and nuanced emotion." Triumph of the Now "Attrib. especially works as a series of beautifully written detached vignettes upon the themes of language and love. And what finer themes are there?" Turnaround Blog "The stories in Attrib. are such treats they deserve to be read like a properly made coffee: don t take too much at once; enjoy in your favourite place; let each story percolate." The Fountain "Williams has a completely unique voice and explores language with a quirky, intelligent hand. These stories are impulsive, darkly comic and utterly compelling." Waterstones summer 2017 recommendations "This is masterful s**t, wiry and high-wire, this is serious serious play." The Wily Filipino "It is clear and precise and, in being so, illustrates the limitations and frustrations of communication between people." Autonomous Thought "This is an original and trolmydames read which adds to some equally amazing recent short story collections in English, mostly being published by small presses. If Joanna Walsh, Claire-Louise Bennett, Camila Grudova, Angela Readman are for you, then this will be too." --Library Thing About the Author ---------------- Eley Williams lives and work in Ealing. She is co-editor of fiction at 3:AM magazine and assists the independent publishers Copy Press. Her prose has appeared in the journals Ambit, Night & Day, The Dial and Structo; in 2005, she was awarded the Christopher Tower Poetry Prize and her work has been shortlisted twice in The White Review's Short Story Prize. She teaches both creative writing and children's literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she was recently awarded her doctorate.