Fiction

Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened. The Premier League academy of his boyhood has let him go. At nineteen, Tom finds himself playing for a tiny club in a town he has never heard of.

A Present of an Orange is a collection of twenty-four distinctive and entertaining new stories from Seymour Cresswell. Drawing on his own experiences, Cresswell covers everything from his love/hate relationship with the legal profession and the vicissitudes of parenthood to his lifelong passion for drama and his love of sailing.

'Intelligent and creepy. One of this year's best psychological thrillers' Paula Daly on THE LIFE I LEFT BEHIND. For any reader of Paula Hawkins, THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN or Alex Marwood's THE DARKEST SECRET

A stunning, heart-breaking literary debut with the feel of a big American classic.