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Author · Storyteller
Henry Brennan
@henrybrennan
Literary Fiction writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Henry Brennan writes mainly in literary fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
A book is made from hundreds of decisions nobody sees.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Henry Brennan
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Quiet Archive
After a council library in Sheffield begins clearing old storage rooms, a cataloguer discovers a box of letters, loan slips and half-finished notes that seem to map the private failures of several local families. As she tries to trace where the box came from, her own careful life starts to loosen around the edges, and the library becomes less a refuge than a place where buried stories insist on being read.
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Draft progress
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