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Author · Storyteller
Joel Kennedy
@joelkennedy
Historical Fiction writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Joel Kennedy writes mainly in historical fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
A story does not need to explain everything to know what it means.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Joel Kennedy
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Cartographer of Ragged Street
In 1890s Coventry, a clerk with a talent for maps is drawn into the disappearance of a factory foreman after a series of altered street plans begins to point toward places that should not exist. As he follows the paper trail through workshops, chapels and back rooms, he discovers that the city’s official version of events depends on a lie everyone has agreed to preserve. The closer he gets to the truth, the more he has to decide whether a neat ending is worth the damage it causes.
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