Kiss and Part – an anthology

The success of Round the Square and Up the Tower prompted Hosking Houses Trust to commission 10 contemporary writers to contribute short stories for an anthology, Kiss and Part.

This stellar list of 10 contemporary writers were all invited to stay at Church Cottage, adjacent to the churchyard in Clifford Chambers. Their brief was to write a short story based on the immediate area at some time or in some way, and also to refer to the first line of Michael Drayton‘s most famous sonnet:

‘Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part’

Imaginative and varied, these 10 stories present a unique collection with a strong sense of place. In the video below, writer and broadcaster Michael Bywater talks to Catherine Fox and Jo Baker who contributed stories to the collection (with a guest appearance by Sarah Hosking, founder of the Hosking Houses Trust). The interview was filmed at the Church Times Festival of Faith and Literature in Bloxham, Oxfordshire, February 2020

How to Order

Kiss and Part is available from all major bookshops and on Amazon
Published by Canterbury Press 2019 at £16.99
ISBN 978 1 78622 192 6