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Richard Bruce Clay

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in Wolverhampton, The United Kingdom

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Author of the novels 'She's Alone' (2006 - dystopian science fiction), 'Both' (2010 - thriller, supernatural), 'Kingswinford Sunset' (2015 - thriller, supernatural), 'Lydgate' (2020 - science fiction/historical), 'The Croviss Girls' (2024 - thriller/supernatural), the short story 'The Cold' (2012 - science fiction) and the narrative poem 'Grene Woddenesse' (published 2015 in The PoW-WoW Book of Ghost Stories under the name 'Alex Chaplain')

'She's Alone', 'The Cold' and 'Kingswinford Sunset' are available internationally on Amazon Kindle.

Paperback copies of 'Kingswinford Sunset', of 'The Croviss Girls' and of 'Lydgate' are for sale at Saturday Books in Dudley.

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	Weird Ales 2: Another Round by Steve Cotterill (Editor), Matthew Ward (Goodreads Author), Catrin Rutland 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kingswinford Sunset 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	She's Alone it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Both it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Croviss Girls by Richard Bruce Clay (Goodreads Author), Kat (illustrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Here There Be Monsters by Steven C. Davis (Goodreads Author), Nimue Brown (Goodreads Author), Keith Errington it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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First time I've failed to meet my target in the reading challenge - six short, with 29 read instead of the intended 35. This is no disaster, as I've been tending to read older, longer texts this year and I intend to continue to do so: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Waverley, Roxanna, Roderick Random and The American are all on my intended list for '26. These will take time digesting. So I shall begin Read more of this blog post »

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A mystery story to stand alongside The Name of the Rose and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Brilliantly paced and characterised, with an undertone of criticism of colonial excess: plundered from India by an English psychopath, the titular stone is fat ...more
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By the time he wrote The Game Players of Titan, Dick already had Eye in the Sky and Time out of Joint to his credit. The Penultimate Truth and The Man in the High Castle weren't far away. Game Players isn't on the same level as those, but it sees Dic ...more
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