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"-I've got a first edition of The Colossus, I said. Knicked it from Tonbridge Library...-Knick some poems for me, Maxine said. I promised I'd be in the glass case at Tunbridge Wells reference library that very evening."
This is an exchange between the main characters in One True Void by Dexter Petley.
The novel is set in 1970s Hawkhurst & Tunbridge Wells.
Copies of the novel are available to borrow at Hawkhurst Library & Tunbridge Wells Library.
15 October 2009 from Rob Illingworth
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fair cop, rob.
I must say, though, that i'm delighted to have come across this site, not least this post, being the author (of the crime) in question. at least i seem to have replaced the book with one or my own.
being recognised as a kent writer has been my modest ambition all along, so thankyou for this. you may like to know that two of my other three novels are also set in Hawkhurst & T.Wells and the Weald in general, sometimes trespassing into East Sussex, alas.
a further pure Hawkhurst novel is in progress.
Kent stuff ( writers & local history) are always on my list, so discovering the Kent team of reading detectives doing all this excellent door-to-door work is something i really appreciate, and i've already discovered two unknown gems. so many thanks to you all.
dp
(ps i tried emailing the general contact us address but the email keeps bouncing back).
Dear Dexter,
Thanks for sharing in the humour of my post about "One True Void" & for your very kind words about Reading Detectives.
Because I'm the local history bod, I have steered our Reading Detectives team towards back catalogue material, (including books from the dreaded glass cases!)
So, in the main, we've failed to cover current Kent authors. In fact, we haven't managed to cover the whole of this enormous county. Happily, this is just the pilot stage of the project. We hope to get more readers across the county to build on this work.
#being recognised as a kent writer has been my modest ambition all along
What caught my attention was your references to Blunden's Undertones of War. Although your late C20th Hawkhurst was not the Arcadia of his early C20th Yalding, I thought that you had an affinity with him.
#you may like to know that two of my other three novels are also set in Hawkhurst & T.Wells and the Weald in general, sometimes trespassing into East Sussex, alas.
I've found your website, which is great: http://www.dexterpetley.com/other_novels.html
#a further pure Hawkhurst novel is in progress.
You better watch out, in the end they'll have you opening the Hawkhurst Country Fete...
#(ps i tried emailing the general contact us address but the email keeps bouncing back
Sorry about that, i'll report this.
Regards,
Rob