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Richard Bardsley

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About Me


Richard's a writer based in Hackney, London.His first collection of short stories, "Body Parts: The Anatomy of Love", was released in February 2008, courtesy of Salt Publishing.
For more info and stories, please visit:http://www.richardbardsley.netor:Richard at Salt Publishing.
____________________________________________________________ __________________________About the book:
“Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, but yet the body is his book.”John Donne, The Extasie, Line 71
In these relentlessly inventive stories, each one dedicated to a particular part of the physique, Body Parts: The Anatomy Of Love explores the common themes experienced by all of us at some point during the mating game, whether it occurs at the point of initial, exhilarating attraction and its lavish promise of hope; during the course of an habitual lifetime of snidy remarks; or at some unenviable, fumbling circumstance in between.Desire, jealousy, belonging, need, tenderness - all emotions have their place. From head to toe via freckles and fingers, by the end of this painfully funny, at times disturbing and never predictable journey, the agony and enchantment of love in all it’s guises has been expertly dissected...

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Writers.Good, thoughtful, interesting people. Or difficult crazy ones._______________________________________________________ _______________________________

My Blog

Ride the Word XI Summer Tour

I'll be reading some stories at this months Ride The Word, come on down, it's freeeeee....Here's the full details and line-up:The CAFE YUMCHAA45 Berwick Street, Soho, London W.1  Wed. 24th June, 7- 9p...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:32:00 GMT

Reading at Borders Oxford Street

Myself, Vincent de Souza, Sascha Akhtar, Jay Merill and Andrew Syers will be reading various bits and bobs from our work at Ride The Word, which is on at Borders Oxford Street, London from 7.30 til 9p...
Posted by on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:36:00 GMT

Interview on www.goodbooksguide.blogspot.com

The full text's here:Richard's interview with Eric Forbes
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:11:00 GMT

The Beauty Of Book Covers...

If, like me, you're a little nerdy about fonts and layout, you might want to check out Covers, which is a blog 'dedicated to brilliant book cover design'.There's some cracking ones on there, and perha...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 02:36:00 GMT

Too busy to notice my books out there!

I've been slaving away in edit suites the last few months, doing the old day job, and hadn't actually noticed that Body Parts was on the shelves until a week ago! Overcome with an emotion that approac...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 02:19:00 GMT

Body Parts on the Frank OConnor Longlist...

I've just heard that Body Parts is one of the 14 books longlisted in the UK for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, which obviously makes me pretty happy. Of these 14 books, 8 were by ...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 02:07:00 GMT

Wasn’t expecting that...

take the WHAT BAD BOOK ARE YOU test.and go to mewing.net. not as good as reading a good book, but way better than a bad one.
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:30:00 GMT

Website now live...

My website's finally up and running for anyone who'd previously moseyed on over and found a beautifully minimalist .404 error. Highly embarrassing personal information is given away there as a nice bo...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:50:00 GMT

Pre-order "Body Parts" on Amazon.co.uk...

You can pre-order my book on Amazon now, ready for the release date on 1st February 2008. Here's the link:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Body-Parts-Anatomy-Modern-Ficti on/dp/1844714322/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=g...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:44:00 GMT