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Lifetime's experience inspires first published crime novel
Darlington author Kath Radford has had her first crime novel published.
Beyond Belief, a crime story in which a killer strikes in a busy general hospital, is published by Legend Press.
Born and raised in Yorkshire, Kath Radford initially trained as a nurse in Darlington before joining the Armed forces.
As a Captain in the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, she spent two years in Germany and on returning to civvy-street, gained her intensive care qualifications prior to taking up a post of Sister in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Darlington Memorial Hospital.
Awarded the McKeown Medal for her contribution to the art and science of nursing, Kath also has a Masters degree in psychology and pioneered bereavement follow-up services in ICU.
After taking early retirement from her post as Senior Nurse in critical Care, Kath turned to writing and joined Darlington-based writing group Inkerman Writers.
She has already had her first two short stories published, one of which gained a highly recommended award in a national competition.
Kath said: “I have been able to draw on my long experience in the nursing profession to create what I hope is a tense crime thriller. I am delighted to see the book come out. It really is a dream come true for me."
Beyond Belief
by Kath Radford
ISBN - 9 781 849 237 864
Paula Hobson is Senior Sister in the Intensive Care Unit at Lydale General Hospital.
Instinct tells Paula that something is wrong and when the death rate begins to rise, she suspects one of her colleagues is killing the patients.
Paula begins to investigate in secret, but somebody is working against her and her world falls apart.
Can Paula overcome her own doubts and insecurities to finally expose the killer?
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DfC
The Inkerman Writers are members of Darlington for Culture (DfC), which was set up in 2010 to help save Darlington Arts Centre from closure.
Its members include representatives of arts and community groups.
DfC was established after the centre’s owner, Darlington Borough Council, announced that budget cuts meant that it would have to withdraw its subsidy from the Arts Centre.
Although the centre closed, the organisation remains active - more at www.darlingtonforculture.org
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Welcome to the site created by the Inkerman Writers to showcase our work.
Based in Darlington, North East England, and having celebrated their tenth anniversary in 2013, members have enjoyed success in a variety of arenas, including winning, and being shortlisted and highly commended, in short story competitions, having novels published and publishing the short story anthology A Strawberry in Winter, which can be obtained by visiting the website www.blurb.com
The group's second anthology of short stories, Christophe's Farewell and Other Stories, can be obtained, cost £4.95 plus postage and packing, from
The Inkerman Writers’ latest book, Out of the Shadows, which was launched as part of the 2013 Darlington Arts Festival, is on sale. The book can be ordered direct from
http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/4204019-out-of-the-shadows
The group also produced The Last Waltz, a double CD of short stories, available by contacting deangriss@btinternet.com, cost £5 plus p and p.
Several of our writers wrote original one-act plays in a collaboration with the Green Theatre company, which were performed at Darlington Arts Centre early in February, 2012.
Darlington-based Inkerman Writers have produced their latest anthology of short stories, Inkerman Street, based on the demolition of a fictional northern street and the stories of the people who lived in it.
The book, which features a variety of stories ranging from horror to comedy, was launched to a large audience at the Darlington Arts Festival Literary Day on Saturday May 26 and begins like this:
“Inkerman Street is still and graveyard-hushed tonight, the terraced houses cold behind boarded-up windows, silent sentinels among a sea of wasteland. No one lives here now and tomorrow the bulldozers will move in to flatten the houses to make way for the Council’s Grand Plan.
“Although the people are long gone, the houses still have life. Peek into one of the bedrooms and see on the wall a painting of a seaside scene, brightly-coloured boats bobbing in the harbour, fishermen pipe-smoking in the noonday sun and seagulls wheeling high above the choppy waters. In the roaring silence of the night, you can hear the screeching of the birds and taste the salt air, acrid and herring-sharp at the back of your throat. It is an illusion; the bedroom is empty and the blooms on the faded wallpaper have long since wilted.
“The air in the houses is musty with neglect yet but a few months before, these were bustling homes filled with frying bacon and steaming irons, whistling kettles and playing children. The houses witnessed all these scenes for more than 150 years. Behind their curtains were enacted a thousand stories but tomorrow they will be destroyed because Inkerman Street is the last of its ilk.
“Now, on the eve of the street’s death, the people who once lived here have returned, gathering solemn and silent in the mist, the ghosts of the past come to pay final tribute….”
The anthology can be purchased at http://www.blurb.co.uk/bookstore/invited/7524452/bae89c993c98ec8c8b37b12d6b9b37ecced5dec3
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