A story-cycle from the deep taproot of the Sussex 'Weald', The Pin Jar is a record of vernacular folk tales as transcribed by the enigmatic composer and amateur ethnographer Francis J. Cardwell, who habitually, compulsively, taped the various stories and songs he encountered in the now lost pubs of his county. Earthy, half-haunted, dialect-rich--this is the true stuff of deep weird England. Sam Reid's beguiling debut presents us with the folk process of story-telling and song reimagined as a radical literary experiment and fictional archive of place-memory.

Sam Reid is the editor of Field, a biannual literary magazine that platforms emerging UK voices alongside established novelists and poets. He is also the presenter of the Field Ramble podcast, a fortnightly long-form interview with some of the most exciting and innovative writers working in English today. His poetry has previously been published by Dunlin Press and he is a graduate of the MMU creative writing MA programme. He lives in Sussex and spends as much time in its forests, hills and sea as possible. The Pin Jar is his debut novel.