{"id":3026,"date":"2019-12-07T17:46:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T17:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2019-12-08T17:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T17:07:16","slug":"gluten-tolerant-a-collection-of-my-liars-league-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=3026","title":{"rendered":"Gluten Tolerant &#8212; A Collection of My Liars&#8217; League Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3027\" style=\"width: 421px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Gluten-Tolerant-Other-Short-Stories\/dp\/1092518150\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-3027\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3027\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gluten-Tolerant-Book-Screen-Shot-Capture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gluten-Tolerant-Book-Screen-Shot-Capture.jpg 421w, https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Gluten-Tolerant-Book-Screen-Shot-Capture-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of Gluten Tolerant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At this festive time of year, why not buy an ideal stocking-filler sized collection of my short stories.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been out since earlier this year but the first story, Gluten Tolerant, is seasonally themed. It&#8217;s filled with aromas of baking stollen that waft through the chilly air that precedes a Bermondsey snowfall. Meanwhile things get a lot hotter in the artisan bakery overnight.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the title story there&#8217;s six other short stories of mine that have\u00a0been selected and performed by Liars&#8217; League, the award-winning spoken word evening.<\/p>\n<p>Read about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Bermondsey baker whose dough isn\u2019t the only thing to rise one snowy evening<\/li>\n<li>An intern\u2019s impromptu elevator pitch for the most calamitous disaster movie ever<\/li>\n<li>The misadventures of a yummy mummy with a dating app<\/li>\n<li>DIY adult movie-making in IKEA featuring a selfie-stick<\/li>\n<li>Naked photography in a hipster\u2019s Shoreditch loft kitchen<\/li>\n<li>The petrol-headed rage of a spurned, knife-wielding opera singer<\/li>\n<li>Lovesick rapping from the dock by a guilt-ridden, Premier League hard-man.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This volume collects the texts of the 10-15 minute stories that were memorably read by actors at the award spoken-word evenings in London, Leicester and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Even better, buy a copy for yourself. It&#8217;ll be the ideal companion to sneak away with after Christmas dinner to avoid the relatives re-establishing battle lines over Brexit after the truce over Brussels sprouts. With seven stories at no more than two thousand words, it&#8217;ll help the Christmas pudding go down smoothly.<\/p>\n<p>Gluten Tolerant won&#8217;t cost you a load of dough, it&#8217;s available at a mere \u00a33.99 for the paperback and \u00a31.99 on Kindle at Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Gluten-Tolerant-Other-Short-Stories\/dp\/1092518150\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this festive time of year, why not buy an ideal stocking-filler sized collection of my short stories. It&#8217;s been out since earlier this year but the first story, Gluten Tolerant, is seasonally themed. It&#8217;s filled with aromas of baking stollen that waft through the chilly air that precedes a Bermondsey snowfall. Meanwhile things get &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=3026\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gluten Tolerant &#8212; A Collection of My Liars&#8217; League Short Stories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1307,1174],"tags":[1310,1076,1238,1334,1077],"class_list":["post-3026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-published-work","tag-gluten-tolerant","tag-liars-league","tag-liars-league-london","tag-mike-clarke","tag-short-stories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}