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Author · Storyteller
Owen Barlow
@owenbarlow
Writer interested in historical fiction, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Owen Barlow writes mainly in historical fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
A book is made from hundreds of decisions nobody sees.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Owen Barlow
On the writing desk
Currently creating
Later first draft
The Salt Ledger
In 1890s Swansea, a dockside clerk discovers that a missing account book is tied to a string of quiet deaths, all of them hidden beneath respectable trade. As he follows the numbers through warehouses, chapels, and fogbound streets, he finds that the town’s salt trade has been built on a lie someone is willing to kill to protect.
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