A short video filmed in Birmingham, with extracts from The Escalator, read by the author
This video set in Birmingham, with extracts from the novel narrated by the author, was filmed before the pandemic by the filmmaker Simon Peecock.
The video set in Birmingham with extracts from The Escalator:
Transcript of this video.
In some respects, this video is already an historical document. The centre of Birmingham no longer has exactly the same atmosphere. The world has moved on as it always does.

Press Kit for The Escalator.
You can read The Escalator, wherever you live, even if you are not lucky enough to live in Birmingham!