Alan Mahar

Alan grew up in Huyton, Merseyside, studied in London, settled in Birmingham. His novels so far are: Flight Patterns (Gollancz, 1999) and After the Man Before (Methuen, 2002, now in paperback). He is just finishing off his third, Huyton Suite, which won an Arts Council Writers Award as a work-in-progress.
 
Alan Founded Tindal Street Fiction Group in 1983 and is publishing director of Birmingham’s independent fiction publisher, Tindal Street Press. One of the smallest publishers ever to reach the Man Booker Prize shortlist, Tindal Street Press provides a national and international platform for talented new writers from the English regions. Contemporary novels and short stories make for a varied, appealing list.