David Wheldon was born in Moira, Leicestershire, then an active mining village, in 1950. His father was a schoolmaster, his mother a nursing sister. He attended Sidcot, a Quaker school. He was the author of five novels: The Viaduct, The Course of Instruction, A Vocation, At the Quay and Days and Orders, and a short story collection, The Guiltless Bystander. He died in 2021.
Synopsis Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes’s Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its thirteenth...