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Kenneth George

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Born

in Ashford Common, The United Kingdom

Website

http://smithkeng.wix.com/ken-smith

Twitter

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Fiction, Crime, Suspense

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Kenneth George was born in Ashford Common, Middlesex. During the home computer revolution of the 1980s, he wrote for a computer magazine but gave it up in order to go to university. Now retired, he is writing again, but now he concentrates on fiction

He has had two short stories cherry picked by ABCtales and his story "two widows" won the 2016 Shaftesbury Story Slam.

He currently lives with his wife and dog on the Lincolnshire coast.

You can also find Ken's work on:

http://storiesonline.net

under the name of DeYaKen:

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Average rating: 4.53 · 30 ratings · 5 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The Unsold Child 4.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 17 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waterloo Sunset 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Worth Fighting For by K.G. Smith, Kenneth George (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucky Man it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Back from the Living

The long-awaited sequel to The Unsold Child is now available. Called Back from the Living, it takes up where The Unsold Child left off.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HD8FTZR4

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1989 (Allie Burns, #2)

by Val McDermid

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor

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“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: cynic

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“... as fur sneak nuclear attacks on anithir country, there was only wan state in history had ever done that, an it wiznae the fuckin Soviet Union.' - McCann”
― Iain Banks, Espedair Street

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“There are only two types of people who attempt to predict the future. Those that don't know, and those that don't know they don't know." J. K. Galbraith”
― K.G. Smith

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