Weight | 0.600 kg |
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Dimensions | 210 × 150 × 13 mm |
ISBN | 978-1-903110-68-3 |
£12.00
Coketown
Pasts remembered,
pasts forgot,
pasts denied,
passed are not.
When childhood friends meet again to reminisce and compare scars a fresh wound waits just around the corner. One rainy night at the wrong end of town, and a pub crawl along Memory Lane takes a hard right down a dark dead end in Barney Farmer’s second novel, Coketown.
Illustrated by Lee Healey.
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