Bob Towers is a writer, poet, actor and artist from Liverpool, now living on the ‘dark side’ (Birkenhead). In this, his first published collection of short stories, he presents a world of laughter, sadness and serious issues curated during his time as an avid listener and storyteller. It captures life it its many forms.

Derelict people on homeless street beds, strings of hen parties, out-of-towners, old men in suits and size 18 girls in size 12 dresses...old warehouses and new cocktail bars...drunk people telling recycled stories, shouting to be heard...
Here we have a collection of well-written vignettes of working-class life, for the most part set in Liverpool and its surrounding towns around the River Mersey. Think Shameless stripped of its romantic allure or a Northern English Nick Cave song.
Welcome to a world of drug addiction, homelessness, domestic abuse and poverty, all told in a darkly humorous but not uncaring manner. Self-harmers, care workers, Polish migrants, poorly-paid low-ranked white collar administrators on weekend benders...a dialogue between a woman with multiple sclerosis and her judgmental cat, the touching intimacy between two old lovers dancing around their living room, the surreal reincarnation of Albert Camus and Bernard Manning and Scouse soldiers dying from a roadside bomb in foreign lands or the beautiful portrait of a drug-addled conspiracy theorist in 'Conspiracy Billy'.
There's a rich tapestry of life on view; portraits from a broken society which confront the reader with a 'what can be done about this?' questioning. It is important that the voices of the dispossessed are heard and Bob Towers has given them a voice without patronising or judging them.