A Touch of Pigskin by Dai Blatchford
Piers Prideaux's promising career at an Oxford College is brought to an abrupt end following the intervention of a new master, one Sebastian Slope. It is not quite as simple as that, matters in Oxford never are. In defending himself Prideaux is directly responsible for Slope being sacked, arrested and jailed for fraud. Years later Slope returns to Oxford and it becomes clear that he is bent on revenge. Slope is the leader of a group of dangerous men who are members of a group descended from an ancient Cornish secret society known as the Spriggans. Prideaux is forced to go on the run with his oldest best friend William Radleigh de Beaune, aka Billy Bones, an aristocrat fallen on hard times. As Slope pursues his deadly obsession anyone associated with Bones and Prideaux is in great danger. This is a dark and brilliant surreal thriller that is best described as an extended version of Inspector Morse as if written by the Monty Python crew. Dai Blatchford has written a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived novel that leads the reader down a labyrinth of fear and dread. Rich with humour, character and incident - He's the kind of writer who makes you want to nag your friends until they read him so that they share the pleasure.
Dai Blatchford has lived in Wales and Cornwall. He has been variously a Police Cadet, Local Government Clerk, Civil Servant, and Careers Adviser. He received his higher education at Oxford and Swansea. At Oxford he was fortunate to be tutored by Terry Eagleton and it was as a student there that he published his first poetry in an anthology called 'Doves for the Seventies.' Once upon a time he was a lecturer and subsequently a Senior Tutor at an F.E. college in Cornwall. On retirement he returned to Wales and settled in Mumbles where he became a freelance journalist writing for a series of magazines. His first novel 'A Touch of Pigskin' took a while to write and was well received. The sequel, 'Garibaldi's Overcoat' is the book you are now holding and there is another project in the pipeline. He is married to Rosie and has two grown up children, two granddaughters and a grandson.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781908773234 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908773235 |
| Title | A Touch of Pigskin |
| Author | Dai Blatchford |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | iponymous publishing Limited |
| Year published | 2014-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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