Tony Williams’s All the Bananas I’ve Never Eaten won the Saboteur Award for best short story collection. His poetry includes The Corner of Arundel Lane and Charles Street and The Midlands. He lived in Sheffield for more than a decade before moving to rural Northumberland. He works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Tony Williams’s Hawthorn City is also a revelation. This powerful collection, Williams’s fourth, takes the reader to a world of Medieval chroniclers, old farmers’ songs, early modern witches, and Icelandic sagas, where the ordinary mingles with the extraordinary.The poet’s use of tightly metered verse and a language both rich and imaginative takes the reader to strange and expansive landscapes [. . .] Williams’s poetic world reminds me of Borges's intellectual labyrinths and ancient libraries. His erudition is never dense or academic but, rather, always unusual, an adventure of the spirit from which the reader can always leave surprised and enriched.