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Jim Gibson is a small story writer and novelist from the Hidden Valleys area of the North Nottinghamshire Coalfields. His work has been described as ‘vanishing boundaries between nostalgia and trauma, work and leisure, reality and fantasy’ and has gained praise from a range of writers including Booker Prize winning author DBC Pierre. At times gritty realism, at others lighthearted and sometimes teetering on the edge of the bizarre, his work is uncategorisable. All told in Nottinghamshire dialect, it is immersive and page turning writing.

His latest collection, The Bygones, is available via Tangerine Press.

Entering the literary world as editor of Hand Job Zine, he has always been on the outskirts of the literary establishment, using his ‘outs ...more

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Jim Gibson and 25 other people liked Blair's review of Lights Out in Wonderland: "This was BRILLIANT. I'd be happy to be proved wrong, but I am prepared to say now that it's my book of 2010 - I can't imagine that I'm going to come across anything as unique, inspiring and downright excellent in the next few months. The story begins " Read more of this review »
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