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Author · Storyteller
Isaac Hudson
@isaachudson
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
Isaac Hudson writes mainly in literary fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
Readers notice more than writers sometimes give them credit for.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Isaac Hudson
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Last Catalogue
Set in Cambridge in the late 1940s, the novel follows a damaged assistant librarian who is sent to sort the private papers of a dead antiquarian bookseller. What begins as routine cataloguing turns into a slow unpicking of wartime absences, old debts and the stories people hide inside books. The book is interested in what survives when institutions tidy the past into something neat.
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Draft progress
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