Work 2006: The "Scotsman"/"Orange" Short Story Collection - Softcover

Well-known names and talented new writers are all to be found in this volume of the very best entries to Britain's biggest and most prestigious short story competition - The Scotsman and Orange Short Story Award. Entrants were given a single word - work - to trigger the imagination. Twenty of the best stories from the competition sit alongside specially commissioned stories from Janice Galloway, Duncan McLean and Brian McCabe. Last year's winner of the GBP 7,500 first prize was Kirstin Zhang with her story, "The Enemy Within", a subtle, multi-layered story about the deceptions that affect an Indonesian worker's life. Over one thousand entries were received in 2005.

Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast in 1942. He began his career as a lab technician before studying at Queen's University, Belfast. He has written screenplays, TV and radio scripts, as well as short story collections and novels, including Cal, The Great Profuno, A Time to Dance, The Anatomy School and Grace Notes, which was awarded the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has lived in Scotland since 1975.