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Pete Ayrton

Biography

Pete Ayrton

Pete Ayrton was born in London in 1943. A period of work as translator led to a job as editor with Pluto Press and to his founding in 1986 of Serpent's Tail with the specific agenda of publishing fiction in translation; this includes two First World War classics, Frederic Manning's HER PRIVATES WE and Gabriel Chevallier's FEAR, both represented in NO MAN'S LAND. He lives in London.

Pete Ayrton

Books by Pete Ayrton

No Man's Land: Fiction from a World at War: 1914-1918
Edited by Pete Ayrton - Fiction

Featuring 47 writers from 20 different nations, representing all the main participants in the conflict, NO MAN'S LAND is a truly international anthology of World War I fiction. Work by Erich Maria Remarque, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Rose Macaulay sits alongside forgotten masterpieces such as Stratis Myrivilis’s LIFE IN THE TOMB, Raymond Escholier’s MAHMADOU FOFANA, and Mary Borden’s THE FORBIDDEN ZONE.