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Owen Ainsworth
@owenainsworth
Adventure writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Owen Ainsworth writes across adventure and historical fiction, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
Readers notice more than writers sometimes give them credit for.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Owen Ainsworth
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First draft
The Salt Road to Kinsale
In 1798, a disgraced customs clerk is sent inland from Cork with a seized ledger that could expose a smuggling network reaching from the coast to the rebel camps. He expects a routine errand and instead finds a country where every road has a witness and every favour has a price. The farther he travels, the clearer it becomes that the ledger is dangerous not for what it records, but for what it can be made to prove.
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