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@nicholasdawson
Literary Fiction writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
Behind the stories
Nicholas Dawson is a literary fiction writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
A book is made from hundreds of decisions nobody sees.
Books and story worlds
On the writing desk
Later first draft
In post-war Glasgow, a junior librarian at a municipal library discovers an uncatalogued bundle of letters hidden inside a damaged medical ledger. As she follows the trail through tenement flats, hospital records and the city’s shifting post-war streets, she is drawn into a private history that unsettles her own careful life.
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