The Blind Accordionist is the third novel by UEA alumnus C.D. (Chris) Rose and has just been published by Melville House. Chris graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2007 and subsequently gained a PhD in the short story from Edge Hill University. His first book The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure was published by Melville House in 2014. A standalone short story, Neva Star, was published as a pamphlet by Daunt Books in 2015. His novel Who’s Who When Everyone Is Someone Else: Ten Lectures on Great Lost Books was published by Melville House in 2018 and shortlisted for the 2019 McKitterick Prize. In 2020 he edited Birmingham, an anthology of new short fiction centred on the city of Birmingham and published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham
The Blind Accordionist by C.D. Rose
