Cartwright plays one, paperback/jim cartwright

Road: A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter.

It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze (Sunday Times).

Bed: Cartwright writes better about old people than anyone I know, except perhaps Beckett.

This is an odd, harrowing and hilarious piece, entirely without sentimentality, sturdy but moving.

(John Peter, Sunday Times) Two: A sharp, salty quickfire evocation of the surface gaiety and underlying melancholia of English pub life.

(Michael Billington, The Guardian).

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice: A northern showbiz fairytale, a backstreet Cinderella story, with a built-in kick.

(Guardian).