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Author · Storyteller
Alex Ward
@alexward
Writer interested in crime, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Alex Ward writes mainly in crime and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
Good fiction leaves a little space for the reader.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Alex Ward
On the writing desk
Currently creating
Later first draft
The Last Proof
When a Liverpool typesetter finds a hidden correction in the final proof of a dead journalist's book, it points to a murder that was made to look like a collapse. He follows the trail through printers, bookshops and private archives, where every version of the truth has been edited by someone with a motive. The closer he gets, the more dangerous it becomes to know which copy is original.
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