Bøker av Derec Jones

Let's narrow it down to the sort of people who, if you were inclined to use such language, you might, between clenched teeth, refer to as 'bums'. Take Smelly Shelley, a middle-aged bag woman, stinking of urine and bad attitude - what's her story? How did she get here? And Bernard, a shambolic mess of learning difficulties and obsessive behaviour - and Greg, a middle-class and useless young drug dealer. Or Karl, the dodgy nightclub owner and his brutish brother Byron.These are just some of the characters that Detective Inspector Frank Lee encounters as he investigates the bizarre killing of the headmaster of the largest school in the county.DI Frank Lee is an ex-punk-new-age-traveller motivated to catch the real bad guys and not at all bothered about anyone else's definition of what constitutes crime. He goes about his work in a calm zen-like manner, believing that the solutions will unveil themselves in their own way and in their own time. Despite this apparently laid back attitude, he gets results, and he gets them quick.Bums is the first in a trilogy of novels featuring DI Frank Lee and set in the large post-industrial town of Elchurch on the South Wales coast. Beats and Bones, The next two novels in the series will be released in 2016.

The poems in this collection have been selected from work that spans more than half a century. They are in no particular order but have been chosen to represent as many styles and to present as much variety of content as possible.A few of the poems have been published before.About BlodynThis book has no direct connection to flowers except in its title and in the design of the book cover which features a photograph of a painting called Blodyn.If you know that Blodyn is the Welsh word for flower, and you do now, you'll understand why the painting is called Blodyn.But why is this book called Blodyn?I think it's because Blodyn, the painting, is very special to me and the words in this book are special too. They say all there is to say about me and about the way I see the universe I am presented with.Blodyn is neither plant nor animal, neither he nor she, yet she is both plant and animal. She is pure and raw and beautiful and animalistic and wild - she is part of who I am and I come here to honour her.