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Phil Kurthausen was brought up in Merseyside where he dreamt of being a novelist but ended up working as a lawyer. He has travelled the world working as a flower salesman, a light bulb repair technician and, though scared of heights, painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Ken Dodd once put him in a headlock for being annoying.

He has had work broadcast on BBC radio 4 extra, published award winning short stories and his novel ‘The Killing Pool’ won the Thriller Round in the Harper Collins People’s Novelist Competition broadcast on ITV in November 2011 and appeared in the final. It was later shortlisted for the Dundee International Literary Prize in 2012. He lives in Barcelona.

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	The Silent Pool (Erasmus Jones #1) 3.63 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2014 — 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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HOW RUNNING CAN MAKE YOU A WRITER

I always wanted to be a writer but it was only running that made this possible.

Before I began to run I had the perfect writer’s lifestyle or so I thought. Booze and obsession with books, check, now where do I receive my writer’s certificate? This was how I assumed it would work. Art would follow the lifestyle, no? No. All my attempts at creativity were hamstrung by Read more of this blog post »

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