Books by Martyn Bedford

Flip

by Martyn Bedford

(134 reviews)

Ever wake up in someone else's body? Fourteen-year-old Alex Gray wakes up one morning to discover he's not in his own bedroom. More surprising is that he doesn't recognize his hands, or his legs... When he looks in the... See More

Never Ending

by Martyn Bedford

(27 reviews)

How can she live with what she did? Shiv's best mate, her younger brother, Declan, died while their family were on holiday in Greece. Shiv doesn't know how to live any more - she can only feel self-hatred; she is tormented... See More

Twenty Questions for Gloria

by Martyn Bedford

(23 reviews)

Two go missing. One comes back. Two go missing. One comes back. Gloria is tired of her ordinary life. She barely recognizes the free-spirited girl she used to be in the unadventurous teenager she has become. So when a... See More

The Book of Leeds: A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City)

by Jeremy Dyson

(6 reviews)

A teenage boy trails the city centre bars of the eighties in thrall to his hero - a Leeds United football hooligan... A single woman finds her frustrations with men confirmed speed-dating in a city re-invented as a party... See More

Spindles: Stories from the Science of Sleep (Science-Into-Fiction)

by Deborah Levy

(2 reviews)

The relationship between sleep and storytelling is an ancient one. For centuries, sleep has provided writers with a magical ingredient - a passage of time during which great changes miraculously occur, an Orpheus-like voyage... See More

M.O. Crimes of Practice (Crime Writers' Association Anthology)

by Martyn Bedford

(3 reviews)

A coroner reveals a body's tell-tale clues to his students, as he unwittingly dissects his own relationship... A breakdown driver turns his roadside routine into a quite different type of pick-up... Two creative writing... See More

My Soul to Keep (Comma Singles)

by Martyn Bedford

The relationship between sleep and storytelling is an ancient one. For centuries, sleep has provided writers with a magical ingredient - a passage of time during which great changes miraculously occur, an Orpheus-like voyage... See More

The Beckhams are in Betty's (Comma Singles)

by Martyn Bedford

A quiet Yorkshire town is buzzing with rumours that the Beckhams family are in Betty's tearoom... This story is taken from Letters Home. Many of the characters in Martyn Bedford's stories find themselves at a point of... See More

The Sayer of the Sooth (Comma Singles)

by Martyn Bedford

This story is taken from Beta-Life: Stories from an A-Life Future - Computers are changing. Soon the silicon chip will seem like a clunky antique amid the bounty of more exotic processes on offer. Robots are changing too... See More