"A devastating debut collection of short fiction, encompassing a young working-class Englishman's coming of age, written with great humour and pathos."

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"...a gloriously aromatic stew of comically thwarted desire."

--Graham Harley, Literary Review of Canada.

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"These deftly-compacted stories tracking Enoch Jones from babyhood to his twentieth year are sprinkled with mischief and wit. The writer's prose is smooth as polished stone. Lust is ever present. Birmingham's grittiness no less so. [...] This is lively, exciting work. Summat Else is a fine book."

--Leon Rooke

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"The writing is stripped and clean and so spare it almost shines. The dialogue sparkles. [...] Its seeming simplicity must have been hard won. Tester captures the gritty detail of England's Black Country with an evocative faithfulness which is convincing and extremely moving."

--John Metcalf

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Royston Tester has already been nominated for a slew of awards, been published widely and internationally in literary journals and anthologies, and charmed the CanLit establishment. His writing is very English and in a spectacular way. Summat Else is published by Canada's Porcupine's Quill (2004), and distributed in the U.S. by Ingram, and Baker and Taylor. The author is represented by Anne McDermid Literary Agency, Toronto, Canada.