Alice Little

A Night at the Railway Inn Alice Little

The Railway Inn has stood across the road from the station ever since the railway was built... In this anthology, sixteen authors take us inside the Railway Inn and introduce us to its landlords, regulars, and those just passing through, letting us eavesdrop on some of the conversations at the bar, and see what else goes on. From beer and karaoke to ghosts and spies - crossing genres from crime thriller to comedy - this apparently workaday pub has a number of surprises in store for those who fancy coming inside. The concept behind this anthology originated with two stories written by Mike Evis, each featuring the 'Half Moon Inn'. At one of Didcot Writers' regular pub socials, Alice Little suggested that for their next group anthology everyone's stories should be set at, or at least feature, a common pub. The Railway Inn is a fictional location, but named after a pub in Didcot, long-since demolished. Didcot Writers opened international submissions for this volume in spring 2019 with a very strict brief (a version of which has been adapted for inclusion here) and the necessity for all works to go through a two-stage editing process - in order to ensure that each story could be made to refer to the same pub, and potentially also the same events and the same characters.