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Author · Storyteller
James Briggs
@jamesbriggs
Historical Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
James Briggs writes across historical fiction and mystery, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
A story does not need to explain everything to know what it means.
Books and story worlds
Stories by James Briggs
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The Salt Archive
In late Victorian Plymouth, a clerk in the naval dockyard discovers that a set of missing port records may hide the truth behind a long-buried death at sea. As he follows the paper trail through warehouses, fogbound streets and private rooms full of careful lies, he finds that the city remembers what people would rather forget.
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