Past;Tense
Now available from Amazon and other major retailers
Cover design by Esther Harding
Past; Tense is my latest book of short stories which should be appearing soon in major online book retailers, published by Legend Press. If you would like to read the story Diminuendo from the collection, click here.
Critical review of Diminuendo was universally positive. The following comments are extracted from the Youwriteon website and are typical:
“This was beautifully written, it flowed smoothly, melodic even, the characters individual and realistic. You have captured the naivety and psyche of little boys, the unfairness of grown ups and I apologise if there is nothing constructive about this review but I can’t criticise something where I found no fault.”
“Lovely story, beautifully told. For the first page I could have sworn I was reading Dylan Thomas. “
“As before you show an ease with words and description, bringing scenes to life with a few words”
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5.0 out of 5 stars a great collection to make you think, smile and cry, 5 July 2010
This review is from: Past; Tense (Paperback)
Joe Harding writes a great short story, classic twists or building crescendos of emotion, it’s all here, involving you, as he rightly states on his back cover. There is a good mix of amusingly dark tales and poignant endgames to lives; his writing is descriptive but never heavy and he displays the hand of an author who deserves mainstream publishing. Buy this book for yourself, then buy it as a present because you won’t want to give your first copy away and you can be in at the start of his career! |
Reviewers’ names have been removed, and technical advice edited for the sake of brevity.