All Embracing Launch

> Tonight sees the launch of Dave Pescod’s All Embracing and Other Stories at The Punter Barn in Cambridge. There will be readings, music, drink and good company. As a taster for the collection, we have now published Dave’s story Wishbone Duty as a single short story on Kindle. A daughter returns to visit her [...]

All Embracing and Other Stories Released

All Embracing and Other Stories by Dave Pescod has been longlisted for the 2012 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize. The characters in Dave Pescod’s stunning first collection are united by their desire to find love. A lonely woman has developed an ingenious way to steal embraces from strangers, an immigrant struggles to find exactly [...]

Dave Pescod Q&A

Dave Pescod answers questions about his book All Embracing and Other Stories Q. What was the inspiration for ‘All Embracing’? A few years back I’d ended a relationship and was waiting in Liverpool Street Station watching people meet and greet, hugging each other affectionately. It was Christmas and there were large groups gathering and embracing [...]

A Hug Anyone?

> A film of the title story in Dave Pescod’s book All Embracing and Other Stories. Dave Pescod on the filming: ‘It took a lot of takes and after an hour and nearly a hundred hugs or more everybody was a bit high and nobody wanted to go home. They just stood there grinning, wanting [...]

All Embracing

It’s all about hugging. A film of Dave Pescod’s short story ‘All Embracing’ made by Andrew Love. In this very moving short, a woman targets London train stations with military precision in search of a full body embrace with strangers. (5:05)