Fragments - Stowers, Antony J
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Fragments is a collection of thirteen short stories that somehow miraculously survived the long journey I took them on, some from as far back as 1989, two from 1997 and the others from 1999, until very recently, that's to say I wrote them under adverse circumstances and managed to cling onto them by putting them all into booklets. The first six, from the spring/summer 1989 while I was living in a squat in Hackney in east London, are: 'Slight dreams of a Northern bastard', 'Crawling king snake', 'Preparations', 'Baptism by fire', 'Foray' and 'Maxine'. I sold a few copies at Compendium bookshop…mehr

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Fragments is a collection of thirteen short stories that somehow miraculously survived the long journey I took them on, some from as far back as 1989, two from 1997 and the others from 1999, until very recently, that's to say I wrote them under adverse circumstances and managed to cling onto them by putting them all into booklets. The first six, from the spring/summer 1989 while I was living in a squat in Hackney in east London, are: 'Slight dreams of a Northern bastard', 'Crawling king snake', 'Preparations', 'Baptism by fire', 'Foray' and 'Maxine'. I sold a few copies at Compendium bookshop in Camden High Street in London in 1989. 'I walk the line' and 'Roman Road' were written in 1997 after I'd left London for good and was living in Darlington. The remaining five - 'Confessions of a rock n roll star', 'In the year 5749', 'Thatcher killed my Grandad', 'The Gospel according to David' and 'Unknown writer on the dole' - all come from 1999.
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Darlington for Culture Review This is the story of an ordinary boy from an ordinary working-class family in an ordinary northern town. If that sounds ordinary, it's not!Jethro Anson Nowsty was born and brought up in Darlington and we follow his life from his very earliest memories up to his approaching adulthood. This mixed-up kid was born in the early 1960s and the author describes everyday life as it was then - warts 'n' all. The music, food, transport, housing and entertainment of the 1960s and 1970s are all brought into clear focus in a series of short stories. Instead of a strictly chronological order, the author goes back and forth through the years writing in a way that draws the reader back in time to when a computer filled a whole room and dialling a phone number took longer than the call itself. All of this is interwoven with national and international news and the background to all of these stories is Darlington. All the landmark buildings, roads and parks, shops and schools are mentioned and described. It's a history of a special time in a special town, told with humour and affection through the eyes of a special 'mixed-up kid'.'