Jim Westover

Broschiertes Buch

Penknife

Beschreibung

It is May 1984 and the time of the miners' strike. The repercussions of a drunken night out conspire to test the limits of friendship and to show how a well-meaning and quite innocent young man can end up behind bars.

Autor

Jim Westover was born in Kent in 1968 and grew up in Brightlingsea, Essex. He left school with one O-Level and fell into labouring work, including a year spent renovating old farm buildings in France. He later moved to London to study journalism and publishing. Around this time, he dabbled in poetry, and one of his poems won a BBC Reggae Writing Competition. He also wrote lyrics, and performed regularly with Colchester art punks, Maniac Squat. While working the nightshift at a media monitoring company writing summaries of newspaper articles, he took an MA in Fiction at Middlesex University. He currently lives with his partner in Bethnal Green, East London. 'Penknife' is his first novel.Visit www.penknifenovel.com to find out more.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SilverWood Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781800422223
• ISBN-10: 1800422229
• Artikelnr.: 65695539