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David Ebsworth

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David Ebsworth is the pen name of writer, Dave McCall, a former negotiator and Regional Secretary for Britain's Transport & General Workers’ Union. He was born in Liverpool (UK) but has lived since 1980 in Wrexham, North Wales, with his wife, Ann. Following their retirement in 2008, the couple have spent about six months of each year in southern Spain. Dave began to write seriously in the following year, 2009. ...more

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Liverpool 1911. Carters. Suffragettes. Striking Kru Seamen. The Welsh Connection. Riddles.
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And a neat launch party recently in Liverpool's new Arts Bar (Thursday evening 1st September) where I chatted about some of the stranger than fiction background to a fabulous audience. Read more of this blog post »

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“Is it not fear that drives atrocity? It is natural enough to hate our enemies. Of course it is. How could anybody kill another person unless they had learned to hate them? But when you are afraid of them too, terrified by them rather, isn’t that when atrocity begins? Scared beyond reason. We call it the Terror always. For you it’s the Red Terror. For the Republicans it’s the White Terror. But actually the real terror is in the hearts of those who commit the atrocity.”
― David Ebsworth, The Assassin's Mark

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