Blogs in August 2020

Butcher’s Crossing 3rd August 2020

Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. In a small town called Butcher’s Crossing he meets a...

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No Identifiable Remains 13th November 2016

Oliver Dreyfuss seems to have it all: a celebrated restaurateur with a glamorous and wealthy wife. As he travels by train to his new restaurant in Paris, there is an accident. Crawling from the debris in shock, Oliver walks...

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Cardiff Dead 1st January 1970

Cardiff 1999. The city’s booming. The Welsh Assembly kicks off in a welter of sexual scandal, fireworks and Shirley Bassey. So does the Rugby World Cup (well give or take the sexual scandal anyway). Cardiff 1999. Charlie Unger’s dead,...

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Temperance Town 1st January 1970

Take three guys. Mikey’s a shoplifter. That’s when he’s not working on his true vocation as a ladies man. The Colonel’s a man of leisure. Well, these days he is. Back in the day, though, he was a player....

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Five Pubs, Two Bars and a Nightclub 1st January 1970

The 5 pubs, 2 bars and a nighclub are each the title of a story. An edge of crime, these stories interweave within Butetown, Cardiff, different scenarios set in the contemporary city.

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