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R.R. Newman

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Crime, Fiction

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Raymond Chandler, Ruth Rendell, Gladys Mitchell, James Ellroy

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April 2012

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Author also writes as Ray Newman

I grew up in Somerset and Devon, lived in London and Penzance, and am now based in Bristol. I'm fascinated by the dark side of West Country life – ditches, dark woods and declining towns where people go to disappear. ...more

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Average rating: 4.23 · 205 ratings · 62 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Grave Digger's Boy 4.23 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2019 — 3 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
	Municipal Gothic: 13 ghost stories by Ray Newman, R.R. Newman (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 78 ratings — 3 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
	Intervals of Darkness 4.36 avg rating — 33 ratings — 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
	Thin Places in Hard Concrete by Ray Newman, R.R. Newman (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2026 — 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
	Modern Buildings in Wessex really liked it 4.00 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

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It’s amazing to think that we can pinpoint the most magical two seconds in pop music, which occur exactly one minute into ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ by The Beatles, as Take 7 melts into Take 26.

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R.R. and 15 other people liked Blair's review of Thin Places in Hard Concrete: "Another great collection from Ray Newman, and exactly what the title promises: a set of stories about the points where reality gets porous. A motorway exit that shouldn’t exist (‘The Interchange’), a building that rewrites itself into a woman’s memor" Read more of this review »
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R.R. and 2 other people liked Wilson's review of Thin Places in Hard Concrete: "A wonderful collection of short stories by Ray Newman. I have read his previous two collections, and was very impressed by the precision of the writing, but I think Thin Places in Hard Concrete is a step-up as a collection because it feels so cohesiv" Read more of this review »
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R.R. and 2 other people liked Alex Sarll's review of Thin Places in Hard Concrete: "Not that Intervals Of Darkness wasn't a fine selection of weird tales too, but Thin Places In Hard Concrete shares with Ray's first collection, Municipal Gothic, the masterstroke of a title that summarises the contents so well as to make any further " Read more of this review »
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