Wasteground - Apperly, Dennis

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Résumé :
BACK COVER TO write Wasteground veteran journalist Dennis Apperly draws on his many years of experience investigating and reporting on crime and social deprivation on the streets of a tough city in the Midlands. The five main characters in the book - Midnight Sam, Scots Robby, The Professor, Lady Jane and Fen - form a band of homeless street-drinkers who beg, steal and borrow to survive. Their precarious existence is hard, dangerous and violent but at times both comical and tender. Besides following their often bizarre day-to-day exploits, the author delves deep into their individual backgrounds to describe how and why these unlikely comrades came to be on the wasteground. Dennis began his journalistic career in 1970 as a reporter with the South African Press Association in Johannesburg. He returned to the UK after three years and has since worked on a number of newspapers and magazines, including the Bristol Evening Post and the Birmingham Post. In 1985 he was appointed launch editor of a weekly newspaper called the Gloucester Express, during which time he organised an award-winning relief aid campaign to Umm Keddada, a remote village in Darfur, Sudan. He then spent a number of years free-lancing before becoming crime reporter for the Gloucester Citizen. Dennis, who is married with a grown-up son and lives in Cheltenham, has written a sequel to Wasteground entitled Looking For Lady. A non-fiction - The Road to Umm Keddada - is in preparation....

Sommaire:
Dennis Apperly was born in Gloucester, England on December 12, 1945. He entered journalism in 1968 in South Africa as a sub-editor/reporter on the South African Press Association in Johannesburg. When he returned to the United Kingdom in early 1970, he embarked upon a career of journalism that lasted for more than 50 years, travelling all over the world in a variety of roles. He became launch editor of the Gloucester Express in 1985, when he ran the award-winning Aid Africa Campaign, himself escorting a lorryload of educational supplies to a remote community in Darfur, Sudan, during a civil war in that country. Dennis has worked for a number of newspapers, including the Bristol Evening Post and the Birmingham Post, and ended his journalistic career as a freelance crime reporter. When he retired Dennis wrote nine fiction novels and one non-fiction, The Road to Umm Keddada. He has had Wasteground and Looking for Lady published, and the other works are awaiting publication. He has also written numerous poems and essays. Dennis has one son, Laurence and two grandchildren, Molly and Ezra....