Underground: Tales for London - Northern by Kat Gordon
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Eleven short stories inspired by the Tube, presented by the Evening Standard and Borough Press.
This collection of short stories distills the sweat and tears of the daily commute, along with the occasional magic of a Tube journey.
Northern Line is set during the Second World War. Grace, who works in the box office at a London theatre, finds herself caught at Hampstead tube station during an air-raid shelter. The action unfolds in the claustrophobic platform setting and the story explores equality and social responsibility.
Kat Gordon read English at Somerville College, Oxford and worked at Time Out briefly after graduating. She has travelled extensively in East Africa where she also worked as a teacher and an HIV counsellor. She received a distinction for her MA in creative writing from Royal Holloway and her second novel The Hunters is out this month. Kat has lived in Budapest and Reykjavik and is currently settled in north London with her partner and young son.
Underground: Tales for London features original short stories by London-loving authors from across the world. Each story, written by a Borough Press author, will be available to Evening Standard readers as a free excerpt, from standard.co.uk.
You can buy The Hunters by Kat Gordon here
