It’s not every day a new crime fiction novel wins the approval of Mike Hodges, director of classic British crime movie, Get Carter. But that is exactly what’s happened to Nick Triplow’s debut, Frank’s Wild Years. Add the Yorkshire Post headline that Triplow is “The Big New Name In Crimewriting” and you get the idea: this is a first book not to be ignored. Hodges said Frank’s Wild Years is, “An urban masterpiece; riveting from first to last.” He went on to call Nick Triplow, “the true successor to Ted Lewis” – the man whose novel he adapted for the iconic 1971 gangster flick starring Michael Caine. Nick will be at the Hull branch of Waterstones on the 31st March signing copies of Frank’s Wild Years. Frank’s Wild Years is set in the murky south London underworld where Frank Neaves has seen the blurred lines and lies of his past swept away in the bottom of a whisky glass. Frank wants to forget the life he left behind, but the present has a way stirring up old memories and lost loyalties. Nick said, “Frank is haunted by his past, reconciled to seeing his years out from the bar of his…
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Yorkshire Author In Hull, Calls for Rights for Children Abandoned by Parents
AJ Taft, author of ‘Our Father Who Art Out There…Somewhere’ a novel inspired by her own search for a father who left home on the day she was born will be at the Hull branch of Waterstones on Sat 3rd March from 11am as part of a tour of Yorkshire towns. “My father run off the day I was born. I grew up with a sense that something was missing and a deep desire to find out who my father was.” Alison said. In her mid thirties, Author, Alison decided to use a family tracing service to track down her father. They replied saying that although they had managed to contact him, he had written to say he had no wish to be contacted. Frustrated by his response Alison put pen to paper to write about her feelings but soon a novel grew from the pages. ’Our Father Who Art Out There…Somewhere’ explores what happens when Lily Appleyard goes off in search of her father and rejected, plots a plan of revenge which includes kidnapping a half-sister she never knew she had. Alison’s novel takes a blackly humorous look at the situation but she knows that for many the the…
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