A review by fictionfan
A Splendid Salmagundi by Andrew L., A.L. Butcher, Simon Turpin, Philip Whiteland, Vic Heaney, Stephen Livingston, Ray Daley, Robert J. Franks, Will Macmillan Jones, Darren Humphries, Mark R. Faulkner, Jenny Shaw, D.M. Andrews, Kath Brink, Andrew K. Lawston, Ian Ellis, Andrew Barrett, Cornelius Harker, Michael Brookes, Tim Arnot, M.A. Comley, Raymond Daley, Lexie Conyngham, Harry Nicholson, Kath Middleton, M T McGuire, Marc Nash, Baarbaara the Sheep, David Wailing, Rosen Trevithick, Jonathan Hill, D.D. Chant, Jim Webster

Did not finish book.

I wasn't intending to write a review of this, but the myriad of glowing five-star reviews from friends of the authors and even including people who contributed to the book, means I feel obliged to give an honest assessment.

I read about half of the book. The stories ranged from average to quite poor and the poetry was much the same. As people have said, this is a sampler, but I'm afraid that it didn't tempt me to find out more about the work of the contributing authors. The best stories of the ones I read were the two by Lexie Conyngham (whose books I already know and enjoy), but even these were too short to make much of an impact.

Sorry to be a party-pooper but I feel potential purchasers have the right to an honest review amongst the self-praise and back-slapping.