HP Tinker

Who is HP Tinker?

HP Tinker is a Manchester-based short story writer whose avant garde fiction has frequently been compared to Borges and Donald Barthelme. In 2007, Time Out called him an "unsung comic genius" and he has famously been referred to as "the Thomas Pynchon of Chorlton-cum-Hardy".

Initially championed by Martin Bax at Ambit, novelist Nicholas Royle and 3:AM Magazine's Andrew Gallix, he was considered a key member of the Offbeat generation

His collection of short fiction, The Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity, became an instant underground classic on its release and earned Tinker cult author status. The book has now been translated and published as La Ostentosa Bodeguita Bisexual de la Modernidad by progressive Spanish publisher El Tercer Nombre.

The Times has praised his "hilarious deadpan surrealism", The Independent thought him "unusual, arresting, smart and very funny" and The Guardian remarked that he "fizzes with the kind of zany, surreal conjunctions that recall Barthelme and Pynchon in their prime".

In 2010 HP Tinker appeared in the 200th edition of Ambit magazine alongside Sir Peter Blake and Jonathan Lethem.