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Author · Storyteller
Robert Mercer
@robertmercer
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
Robert Mercer 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 story only works when somebody has something to lose.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Robert Mercer
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First draft
The Last Edition
After a long-time independent bookshop in Leeds is left with a final, unsellable box of misprinted paperbacks, its manager starts tracing the lives of the people who once bought from it. What begins as a practical attempt to clear stock turns into a quiet reckoning with loss, reinvention and the stories people tell themselves to stay afloat.
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Crime & Mystery
The best crime clues are annoyingly ordinary. A receipt, a damp cuff, a name misspelt on a label. On first read they...
18 August 2026
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Brainstorm
Blurbs have developed a strange allergy to plain English. Everything has to sound urgent, dangerous, impossible to pu...
14 August 2026