Andrew Barnes’ Dodge City Chronicles take readers back to a Somerset of pub telephones, jukeboxes and familiar faces.
Set in the 1980s, the series draws on the towns, pubs and people Barnes knew. The books are fiction, but their world is rooted in the everyday life of the local pub: old friends meeting at the bar, familiar characters crossing paths, and the stories and opinions that could keep a conversation going all afternoon.
Small-time crime runs through the Chronicles, but these are not murder mysteries. The focus is on the people – their friendships, their habits and their different ways of looking at life.
The series now spans six numbered volumes, with some books bringing two stories together in one edition. The latest, Ocean’s Eight, is due out on December 7.
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