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Author · Storyteller
Anna Wells
@annawells
Writer interested in literary fiction, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Anna Wells is a literary fiction writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
A finished page should still feel alive.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Anna Wells
On the writing desk
Currently creating
Early draft
The Last Bookshop on Southgate Street
When a small Gloucester bookshop is left half-empty after its owner dies, the woman helping to sort the stock discovers a set of handwritten notes hidden inside unsold novels. As she tries to work out who wrote them and why they were never meant to be found, she is drawn into other people's quiet decisions about grief, loyalty and what gets kept when a place is changing. The book follows the awkward business of preserving a voice without turning it into a relic.
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Draft progress
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