Frank's Wild Years (ePub)

Nick Triplow was born in London in 1964. After spending much of the 1980s riding scooters around Kent and south London, playing guitar for (very) cult indie band I Can't Scream and trying to find publishers for some 'rough-arsed' poems, Nick bit the bullet, went north of the river, and studied for a degree in Writing, Publishing and English at Middlesex University. Nick found validation for his ideas and writing, along with a realisation that if he was going to be another George Orwell or Graham Greene, he'd better get a bloody move on.


After a farewell to poetry in the self-published pamphlet 'Electric Lullaby' - inspired by the mighty John Peel's late night radio show - Nick focused on writing prose. Moving to Barton on Humber, North Lincolnshire in 2001, he began writing his first novel and in 2004 earned a place on the prestigious Sheffield Hallam University MA Writing. The course was a life-changer, and the novel completed for the MA, a slow-burn high-concept political thriller called The Paradise Man, earned a distinction.


In 2009, Nick co-wrote the script for Ted's Return Home, a short film about Ted Lewis, native son of Barton on Humber, and author of classic British crime novel Get Carter (originally titled Jack's Return Home). The film premiered to a packed cinema at the 2009 Humber Mouth Festival. Armed with a new sense of self-belief and a story to tell, inspired by the crime-writing of Lewis and George Pellecanos, Nick returned to draw on the people and places he knew growing up in south London for Frank's Wild Years - a novel of loyalty, betrayal and last chances at the frayed and fading edges of the south London underworld.


Nick is currently writing the official biography of Ted Lewis.

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