ASIN: B00MYGH0NI
Publisher: Sam Garforth
Pages: 450
Thursday evening. Inky Venables returns to his home town in the Midlands, sacked after ten years as a national journalist in London. It is the week before Christmas and he faces a bleak future, sustained by memories of past headlines and the hint of a job on a new Sunday regional paper. He still has his dreams."On the principle that a writer should write about what he knows," John Garforth says, "I know about local government and local politics. This is a dull subject, but the people involved are as accident prone and interesting as the egomaniacs in any other walk of life."This novel is adapted from the radio drama of the same name. "Ankerside was a six hour local radio soap for Palace FM, commissioned by Jules Cadie and financed by West Midlands Arts. We recorded it at the studio in the Palace Media Centre. Then as the month long broadcasting licence began we found the Palace FM ...
