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.
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