The Afterglow

Anthony J. Cartwright (born 1973) is a British novelist from Dudley, Staffordshire, educated at the University of East Anglia. His debut novel The Afterglow (2004) won the Betty Trask Award and was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and Commonwealth Writers' Prize; subsequent works like Heartland (2009), Iron Towns (2016), and The Cut (2017) were also shortlisted for prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and Gordon Burn Prize Wikipedia), Peirene Press, Serpent's Tail PDF, UWE Bristol.