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desperanceOkay, this is fun. Long years ago, in the early-mid nineties, I wrote & published a long book set right here in the west end of Newcastle. It's called Paradise, and it's about religious revival and miracle healing and local crime and council corruption and all that sort of stuff. The everyday life of Geordie folk.
This year, a literary publisher is seeking to stir up lots of interest locally and nationwide for a new book, Crusaders by Richard T Kelly. It's set in the mid-nineties, in the west end of Newcastle, and is apparently about religious revival and crime and political corruption and and and.
I am not for a moment suggesting that Kelly is at all aware of my book. Happily, though, other people are. After Crusaders was reviewed in the Guardian, my friend'n'webmistress Jean Rogers wrote them a letter (scroll down to 'Newcastle novels'), which - even in its abbreviated published form (the uncut version is, um, more punchy and particular) - has at least had some effect. The book's been out of print for years now, tho' I still have a few copies - but guess which is my current bestselling title on Amazon, after just one quick namecheck in a national paper...?
This year, a literary publisher is seeking to stir up lots of interest locally and nationwide for a new book, Crusaders by Richard T Kelly. It's set in the mid-nineties, in the west end of Newcastle, and is apparently about religious revival and crime and political corruption and and and.
I am not for a moment suggesting that Kelly is at all aware of my book. Happily, though, other people are. After Crusaders was reviewed in the Guardian, my friend'n'webmistress Jean Rogers wrote them a letter (scroll down to 'Newcastle novels'), which - even in its abbreviated published form (the uncut version is, um, more punchy and particular) - has at least had some effect. The book's been out of print for years now, tho' I still have a few copies - but guess which is my current bestselling title on Amazon, after just one quick namecheck in a national paper...?