A Corpse Called Bob
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Thank you to my wife and daughter for being the greatest humans ever invented and for designing my beautiful covers, to my mum and brothers for reading my books (and picking up packages for me) and to my assorted experts Bridget Hogg (fiction), Paul Bickley (policing), Karen Menuhin (writing) and Mar Pérez (dead people) for knowing lots of stuff when I don’t.
And finally, whoever you are, thank you for not only reading to the end of my silly novel, but all the way through the author’s note. I love you as only a writer can love their anonymous reader. If you can spare the time, please write a review on Amazon. It makes such a difference to independent writers to have strong reviews to help us stand out.
Thank you one last time and, if you’re ever near Burgos, I owe you a glass of wine.
About Me
I’m a Welsh-Irish-Englishman originally from South London but now living with my French/Spanish wife and decidedly European infant daughter in Burgos, a beautiful city in the north of Spain. I write overlooking the Castilian countryside, trying not to be distracted by the vultures, hawks and red kites that fly past my window each day.
Writing has always been my passion. It was my favourite half-an-hour a week at primary school, and I started on my first, truly abysmal book as a teenager. So it wasn’t a difficult decision to study literature at university which led to an MA in Creative Writing.
At some point, I became obsessed with creating a truly great kids’ book and wrote everything from fairy tales to environmental dystopian fantasies right through to serious issue-based teen fiction. My book The Princess and The Peach was long-listed for a prize in The Times, at some point an American producer was hoping to adapt it into a film but, sadly, no matter how good the feedback I got was, the mainstream publishing industry wouldn’t take a chance on me as a debut children’s novelist so I decided to write for adults instead.
A Corpse Called Bob is my first full length novel for adults in what, I hope, will be a long series. If you feel like telling me what you think about Izzy, my writing or the world at large, I'd love to hear from you, so feel free to get in touch.
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2019 by Benedict Brown
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without written permission of the copyright owner except for the use of quotations in a book review.
First edition November 2019
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