Available now to pre-order: Foulness by David Henningham

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David introduces and reads from the book on Phoenix FM

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“To reach Foulness Island, you have to go east, beyond the hard edge of Essex. It’s a marsh at the end of the world, a low island of wild birds and high explosives, at once wide-open and closed to non-military visitors. It’s a blasted wilderness where privatised missiles fly and the mud yearns to reach right up to your neck. It’s the perfect site for David Henningham’s fictional investigation: an eerily empty English wasteland that turns out to have stood at the centre of world history. Perhaps it still does. The church may be closed, but this book is full of revelations.”

Patrick Wright, author of The Sea View Has Me Again

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Handmade Tiers

• In handmade cloth-covered slipcase ONLY 3 REMAINING
• Exquisite large format handmade edition ONLY 10 REMAINING

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About the Book

It is 1957 and a Russian jet flies over Foulness Island. The photograph it takes starts a chain reaction, alarming military intelligence and unsettling the Essex farming community that endures within its barbed-wire enclosure.

James arrives with orders to camouflage this secret installation. But despite orderly Miss Bradshaw’s efforts, an abandoned Victorian printing press soon diverts his attention away from tripwire fears to Foulness’ colonial past.

The cannons of the British Empire and the British Atom bomb were refined beside this perilous tidal path known as The Broomway. Rockets tested over Thames sandbanks turned on an Abyssinian mountain fortress. The A-bomb transported to Australia’s already devastated Aboriginal lands. Foulness traces trajectories from Victorian Imperialism to the Cold War.

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David Reads from the novel (a Cold War bit!)

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Includes 20 Photographs by Harpreet Kalsi

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About the Author

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Thema

FV Historical Fiction
1DDU-GB-ES South and South East England
3MPQ-DE-Jc 1945 to c 1990 (the Cold War period)

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