Threads
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ISBN13: 9798267566346
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 15 2025
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 15 2025
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Twenty lives. One Winter. Threads, the debut short story collection from A.E. Nicholson, covers a world from deserted station platforms to quiet pubs, sandwich shops and newsagents, following the residents of Guide Bridge and East Manchester as they navigate the slow ache and occasional tenderness of the season. Set in the final weeks before Christmas, each story traces a singular thread - of memory, grief, hope, or quiet defiance - and finds unexpected resonance in the textures of everyday life. Firmly rooted in place, gentle, funny and sad often in the same breath, this collection presents a mosaic of working lives, fractured families, strangers who brush against each other's lives, sometimes without realising and ghosts who linger sometimes in plain sight, revealing the emotional scars that winter carries best in a world stitched together by routine and resilience. Threads asks: What do we keep, and what do we let unravel when Christmas is around the corner?Twenty lives. One Winter. Threads, the debut short story collection from A.E. Nicholson, covers a world from deserted station platforms to quiet pubs, sandwich shops and newsagents, following the residents of Guide Bridge and East Manchester as they navigate the slow ache and occasional tenderness of the season. Set in the final weeks before Christmas, each story traces a singular thread - of memory, grief, hope, or quiet defiance - and finds unexpected resonance in the textures of everyday life. Firmly rooted in place, gentle, funny and sad often in the same breath, this collection presents a mosaic of working lives, fractured families, strangers who brush against each other's lives, sometimes without realising and ghosts who linger sometimes in plain sight, revealing the emotional scars that winter carries best in a world stitched together by routine and resilience. Threads asks: What do we keep, and what do we let unravel when Christmas is around the corner?
Twenty lives. One Winter. Threads, the debut short story collection from A.E. Nicholson, covers a world from deserted station platforms to quiet pubs, sandwich shops and newsagents, following the residents of Guide Bridge and East Manchester as they navigate the slow ache and occasional tenderness of the season. Set in the final weeks before Christmas, each story traces a singular thread - of memory, grief, hope, or quiet defiance - and finds unexpected resonance in the textures of everyday life. Firmly rooted in place, gentle, funny and sad often in the same breath, this collection presents a mosaic of working lives, fractured families, strangers who brush against each other's lives, sometimes without realising and ghosts who linger sometimes in plain sight, revealing the emotional scars that winter carries best in a world stitched together by routine and resilience. Threads asks: What do we keep, and what do we let unravel when Christmas is around the corner?
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