Tales of the Decongested, Volume Two

by Toby Litt, Paul Blaney (Editor)

With burning giraffes and rogue estate agents, macaroons and bathtub eels, plus healthy doses of love, sex and death, Tales of the DeCongested, Volume Two is an anthology of short stories representing the cream of hundreds of stories performed at the monthly live event. Among the three dozen tales in this volume are stories by Toby Litt, Rob Sears, Vanessa Gebbie, Kate Henderson and Daniel Jeffreys.

264 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 2008

About the author

Toby Litt was born in Bedfordshire, England. He studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury, winning the 1995 Curtis Brown Fellowship.

He lived in Prague from 1990 to 1993 and published his first book, a collection of short stories entitled Adventures in Capitalism, in 1996.

In 2003 Toby Litt was nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'.

In 2018, he published Wrestliana, his memoir about wrestling, writing, losing and being a man.

His novel, A Writer's Diary, was published by Galley Beggar Press on January 1st 2022.

A Writer's Diary continues daily on Substack.

He lives in London and is the Head of Creative Writing at the University of Southampton.