‘Lucca’ by Tom Vowler – read by the author

Tom Vowler reads ‘Lucca’ his short story in Issue Six of The Lonely Crowd.

Tom Vowler’s first collection, The Method, won the inaugural Scott Prize in 2010, and the Edge Hill Readers’ Prize in 2011. He followed this with two novels – What Lies Within and That Dark Remembered Day – and his work has been published in journals around the world. Tom is editor of the literary journal Short Fiction, and lectures in Creative Writing at Plymouth University, where he has just completed his PhD. Apart from being an occasional all-rounder for the Authors Cricket XI, he has no hobbies. You can find out more about Tom’s forthcoming collection, Dazzling the Gods, here.

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