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12 Miles Out – a novel by Nick Wright

ISBN: 978-0-9562721-4-0

by Nick Wright

Lee Snowball, a pirate DJ on a ship moored off Liverpool, loses his job when the station turns legit and comes ashore. With his relationship falling apart, and a child on the way, Lee sails to Africa with the ship on a mission to end apartheid. But the ship’s new owners have other ideas, and the crew become embroiled in the conflict in Sierra Leone when the hidden cargo is revealed.

Lee’s story of struggle and hope is intertwined with the story of his ancestry – the earliest black settlers in Europe, ex-slaves who, in exchange for freedom, fought in the British army during the American War of Independence, and were settled in Liverpool.

12 Miles Out is a love story, thriller and historical novel; funny and sad, uplifting and enlightening.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nick Wright has been self-employed since leaving university where he studied philosophy. Along with his partner, Swati Shah, he set up music studios in East London and it was whilst working late into the night that he began to write. With the proceeds from the sale of the business, the couple began selling modernist furniture at Camden Market. Using their second hand VW Golf, they ran design from Brussels before graduating to forty foot containers in which to ship 50’s rosewood from Denmark to London and to New York. Even during this time as a global rag and bone man, Nick continued to write each day, with his stories now garnering encouraging rejection letters and winning competitions.

12 Miles Out won first prize in the Fish Unpublished Novel Award, but in between rewrites of the putative novel, Nick and Gareth Williams, head of design and contemporary art at Bonhams, produced Cut and Shut: The History Of Creative Salvage. The book contextualises the early work of such internationally renowned designers as Ron Arad and Tom Dixon

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