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A.J. O'Toole
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Writer - working on short fiction and my novel "Half A Lie".
Good listener, quiet talker, part-time drinker.
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🎶 Dreamed a dream, by the old canal 🎶
December 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Woah. Portal to hell. Our landscape is always being rewritten.
December 22, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Centre of the Universe
My photo of the famous Nine Locks
December 22, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Yep. Justice for Leonard. We can only hope for a sequel where he gets his reward.
Leonard and Hungry Paul.
December 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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2020 #46
The debut novel from another real favourite of mine, a Black Country writer who brings us dark tales from that oft ignored part of the English Midlands. Also debuts the author's distinct and unsettling narrative style, the blurb gives a hint.
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The Black Country, by Kerry Hadley-Price. Plot Maddie and Harry: she's an estate agent, he's a teacher. They'll say they live in the Black Country. They'll say how they met Jonathan Cotard, explain how they later argued, had a car accident, thought they'd killed someone. Thought they had. And as they search for a truth, they'll tell us their secrets, their mistakes. And we'll judge them. We'll judge Harry's fling with a schoolgirl and Maddie's previous life. We'll judge the nature of love and violence, good and evil. The Black Country. For Maddie and Harry, it's darker than it should be.
December 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Really recommend Krakow.
December 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Thanks!
December 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM