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Michael J. Vowles

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Born

in Bristol, The United Kingdom

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https://tumbleweedwrites.com/

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Fiction, Contemporary, Literary

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Michael J. Vowles is a London-based writer of literary and contemporary fiction. His work has appeared in the London Magazine, the Writer's Playground, and the Kingston RiPPLE anthology. He graduated from the University of Winchester with a BA in Creative Writing in 2014 and Kingston University with an MA in Publishing in 2022.

His debut title, Fractured Threads, was released in 2022. ...more

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Fractured Threads

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Bloom

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3)

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