John Saul - Biography

The sky was gold streaks and white streaks, an expensive look, stormy. Diagonals ruled. Under the streaks came blue woodland in bar shapes, sliced up by firebreaks. Somewhere there my brother Ray lived."

As Rivers Flow

Assumin'," she adds between kisses, "you will be lookin' your best as we get outta here. I don't want us goin' someplace and you arrivin' like a flower."

Call It Tender

Father said he would put his kettle on. Shuffling to the kitchen he picked up the phone. Put it down. Came back and sat down; wondered why no water boiled."

As Rivers Flow

Miss Heidi said I could write in my diary Miss Heidi introduced me to sex, there was a broom cupboard on the third floor and we were to go there straight away and we did."

The Most Serene Republic

"John Saul is one of our best short story writers"

Time Out

John Saul was born and grew up in Liverpool. After a career in teaching he was for many years the translator for Greenpeace in Germany. He now lives in Suffolk.

He is the author of three collections of short stories, Call It Tender, The Most Serene Republic: love stories from cities and As Rivers Flow, and a novel, Heron and Quin. His stories have appeared in publications and anthologies throughout the UK, and in Ireland, Canada and Australia, while US publications have been showing increasing interest in his fiction.

He has been on panels selecting the winners to several short story competitions, and has written about fiction for the Guardian, Independent and Observer.

"Beguiling"

The Guardian