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The Vintage Podcast: Driving a short distance with Joff Winterhart

The Vintage Podcast goes on the road with graphic novelist Joff Winterhart to talk about illustration and storytelling and to see the sights of London

12 August 2017

With a Costa Award-shortlisted graphic novel under his belt and esteemed fans like Zadie Smith, Joff Winterhart talks to us about his new release, Driving Short Distances. Alex Clark joins Joff on a short drive to discuss small-town characters, masculinity and what his characters would have in their record box...

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Driving Short Distances

  • Driving Short Distances

  • Sam is 27 and needs to get a job. Keith, who claims to be a second cousin of his (absent) father, offers him one. On Keith’s card it says he does ‘distribution and delivery’, which seems to consist of ‘a lot of driving around, getting out of the car for a few minutes and then getting back in’, Sam tells his mother. And so the days go by, Keith driving to a trading estate, ducking into a portakabin, all the while telling Sam stories about his first boss, Geoff Crozier, his mentor in distribution and delivery. As the weeks pass, Sam gets to know Keith’s friends, flirty Hazel-Claire from whom they buy two pasties every day at lunchtime, a variety of receptionists, and a few tantalising secrets from Keith’s past…

    As in Days of the Bagnold Summer, Joff Winterhart is a master at depicting ordinary life in all its utterly poignant and funny mundanity.

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Joff Winterhart

Joff Winterhart is an illustrator and film-maker and plays drums in his band, Bucky. He lives in Bristol, where he walks his greyhound, Peep-Peep. He is the author of Days of the Bagnold Summer, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Award for Best Novel.

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