Exploring Great Britain's cultural and geographic diversity, this series pairs fiction and nonfiction accounts by both new and established writers. Each volume offers a chance to get beyond the tourist destinations, as contemporary British authors reflect on the meaning of home.

BAFTA Award-winning comedian Stewart Lee couldn't be dull if he tried, and in the memoir In the Ape's Shadow he remembers the music scene that inspired him growing up in Birmingham. Recalling an unforgettable day in the city's history, professional storyteller Maria Whatton's Silver in the Quarter is a fictionalized account of the pub bombings of 1974.