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Author · Storyteller
Joel Hughes
@joelhughes
Writer of young adult with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Joel Hughes is a young adult writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
Writing gets interesting when the obvious choice stops working.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Joel Hughes
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Currently creating
Early draft
The Last Train from Partick
Seventeen-year-old Mairi Kerr spends her evenings shelving books in a Glasgow bookshop and trying not to think about the fact that her mum’s been quietly losing their flat to debt. When a local campaign to save the shop collides with family trouble and a friend she has started to rely on too much, Mairi is forced to decide what she is actually willing to fight for. It is a story about small places, awkward loyalties and the way ordinary lives can tilt without much warning.
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