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Anthony Ferner Author & Editor

Anthony Ferner was professor of international human resource management at De Montfort University and was head of research in the Faculty of Business and Law for 12 years. He retired in 2014. His short story `The Cat It Is That Dies’ appeared in the anthology The Sea In Birmingham, edited by Gaynor Arnold and Julia Bell and published by Tindal Street Fiction Group in 2013. This story became the basis of his novella Winegarden, published in 2015 by Holland Park Press. Another of Anthony Ferner’s short stories, `The tanks’, was shortlisted for the Irish Times summer short story competition in 2014. His second novella, Inside the Bone Box, was published by Fairlight Books in 2018. He has been a member of the Tindal Street Fiction Group, based in Birmingham, since 2010.