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by Phil Rickman


  I leaned heavily on three books on the West Case: An Evil Love by Geoffrey Wansell, Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn and She Must Have Known by Brian Masters. Also Paul Britton’s The Jigsaw Man. The more bizarre effects of electricity and the hot-spot phenomenon are discussed in Albert Budden’s Allergies and Aliens. You can find out about Ariconium in Brian Cave’s The Countryside Around Weston and Lea (The Roman town of Ariconium and its district), which may be out of print now but was published by The Forest Bookshop, Coleford, where I got mine second-hand.

  Frankly, this was not exactly an easy book to write, and I relied throughout on the judgment and penetrating editorial skills of my wife Carol, who spent many weeks disentangling it and pulling me back from the brink of excess. The songs from Lol Robinson’s Courtyard gig can be found on the CD, Songs from Lucy’s Cottage, obtainable through the website www.philrickman.co.uk. The background and locations for The Lamp of the Wicked are explored in Merrily’s Border by Phil Rickman, with pictures by John Mason, published by – Logaston Press.

  One day the whole truth may come out. But I’m not holding my breath.

  PHIL RICKMAN was born in Lancashire and lives on the Welsh border. He is the author of the Merrily Watkins series, and The Bones of Avalon. He has won awards for his TV and radio journalism and writes and presents the book programme Phil the Shelf for BBC Radio Wales.

  ALSO BY PHIL RICKMAN

  THE MERRILY WATKINS SERIES

  The Wine of Angels

  Midwinter of the Spirit

  A Crown of Lights

  The Cure of Souls

  The Lamp of the Wicked

  The Prayer of the Night Shepherd

  The Smile of a Ghost

  The Remains of an Altar

  The Fabric of Sin

  To Dream of the Dead

  The Secrets of Pain

  THE JOHN DEE PAPERS

  The Bones of Avalon

  OTHER TITLES

  Candlenight

  Curfew

  The Man in the Moss

  December

  The Chalice

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