The Valley Below
'The Valley Below' follows the story of troubled soldier turned Nottingham policeman Jack Elmore, who after a violent run in with a dangerous Irish gang, is sent back to his home of Cairn Valley.
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Upon arriving, Jack rediscovers a past he tried hard to escape from and a post-war world bereft of hope, where everyone has suffered irreparable losses.
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Following a rise in strikes and local violence, culminating in the death of a beloved mine foreman, Jack finds himself alone as he fights to stop a scheming local politician, confront his own violent past and save a town hell bent on destroying itself.
About The Author
Dan is a scriptwriter and novelist hailing from the former mining town of Bolsover, Derbyshire.
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Born and raised working class, Dan's writing deals with issues of moral ambiguity, violence, regret, low-rent love and beauty, albeit with a dark optimism.
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Dan's writing often features morally questionable heroes, insurmountable odds and doomed romance.
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Deeply inspired by the work of McCarthy, Elmore Leonard and other writers in the Southern Gothic genre, Dan combines this with a localised authenticity indicative of a writer who knows where he comes from.
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Mea Culpa
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After a nasty break-up, a drunken suicide attempt and the downward spiral of his personal life, troubled British writer Barry Finch travels to Los Angeles in pursuit of a "dream" job offer and a much needed fresh start. Upon arriving in Hollywood, Barry finds himself thrown headlong into a neon world of excess and self-loathing that is in many ways more complex than the one he left; struggling to keep his head above water as he battles past demons, his worsening addictions and a bad case of writer's block, all the while trying to manage a "real job" and his encounters with three mysterious women who seem to gravitate into his life.
MEA CULPA is a story about life and death, fights and forgiveness, cigarettes and alcohol and the things we do in the pursuit of love; a tale of good intentions and bad decisions in the city of angels.
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