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Author · Storyteller
Nathan Ward
@nathanward
Literary Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Nathan Ward writes across literary fiction and contemporary, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
Good fiction leaves a little space for the reader.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Nathan Ward
On the writing desk
Currently creating
Later first draft
The Quiet Hours of St Jude's
After a small city library is moved into a deconsecrated church, the staff and regulars begin to notice how much of a neighbourhood can be held together by routine, gossip and borrowed books. When an overlooked letter surfaces in the archive room, one librarian starts tracing a private history that reaches into the lives of people who have spent years avoiding each other.
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