I write in a tiny room at the top of my house opposite a park donated to the city by an Edwardian trawler magnate. When I was a kid starting out in journalism one of my old mentors told me, “People are news.” – Well, the people of Hessle Road, on my doorstep, are a news resource bar none.
Even though much has changed in some parts, there are still remnants of docklands, trawler offices and of course the trawlermen’s pubs, where a yarn is never more than a pint of bitter away. How does it help you as a writer, living in the community you are writing about?īeing able to ‘walk’ the setting for my books is invaluable. You live on Hessle Road in Hull, albeit on the posh end.
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