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Author · Storyteller
Oliver Fox
@oliverfox
Writer of historical fiction with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Oliver Fox writes historical fiction and drama. Their interests range from character and story structure to editing, formatting and the practical realities of independent publishing.
Good fiction leaves a little space for the reader.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Oliver Fox
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Later first draft
The Salt Ledger
In 1840s Bristol, a widowed ledger clerk is sent to audit the accounts of a failing dockside trading house and discovers that the books hide more than bad debt. As the city shifts around him, he has to decide whether to protect the people who depend on the firm or expose the fraud that keeps them all afloat. The story follows the ordinary business of counting, copying and carrying on until it turns into something much harder to excuse.
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