This is the official website of Andrew Crowther....

.... and I'm the author of Stupid Stories for Tough Times, a little book of wild tales published by Hay Press for Renard Press.

Writer J.M. Hall says of them: "Reading these stories was such a distinct experience.... the depths, the significance gently revealing itself - but in a way that made me want to go back and back and back again... these are beautiful, quirky bits of wisdom, and are continuing to haunt me in a gentle, inderstated way..."

Filmmaker Mike Leigh (Peterloo, Vera Drake, Topsy-Turvy, Abigail's Party, etc) calls the book "delightful!".

You can buy it here. I also wrote an article about it which appeared in the Telegraph and Argus here.

In 2023 Stairwell Books published Down to Earth, a fable of the future set in an isolated town in thrall to an idealised English past. Filmmaker Mike Leigh (Peterloo,

 Vera Drake, Topsy-Turvy, Abigail's Party, etc) has said this of it: "Andrew Crowther's brilliant dead-pan dystopian vision is as compelling as it is disturbing and unsettling", while Emma Clayton of the Telegraph and Argus has 

called it "tense, eerie and laced with humour." You can buy it here.

I've also written the major biography Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan, and darkly comic plays such as Welcome To Paradise, Funny Men and Working Lives: plays which have been performed and enjoyed in locations as diverse as Bradford, Leeds, Otley and Edinburgh.

I'm also the Secretary of the W.S. Gilbert Society.

Author photos by Steve Rayner