Monday, July 16, 2007
Title: The District Man
Author: Peter Cook
Disenchanted with working in Fleet Street on a national tabloid, journalist Mark Devlin returns to his roots in the North to work on a local provincial newspaper.
His timing is bad.
Within a year he is made redundant and has to freelance as a district reporter in a rural area where he uncovers some startling stories that read like fiction.
But are they?
- The young vicar involved with wife-swapping on a new housing estate.
- The teenager who goes missing with tragic results.
- A tramp who turns out to be a jazz virtuoso.
- The gypsy funeral that ends in disaster and
- Show leeks threatened by unexploded bombs, but who put them there?
Peter Cook draws on his vast experience as a journalist and broadcaster to leave us pondering on whether the stories are fact or fiction? And if the former, just where are the villages of Sessington and Bridgefield?
waking up from my lonely world at 8:09 PM;
