Malcolm K Needham: 2 books

John Baxter was raised in a coal-mining village in Yorkshire, England. The men in the village were as hard as nails. They worked down the coal mine every day, breathing in the black dust, then came above ground at the end of their shift to drink the local beer and sing their sad songs. Their tempers...

Barry Freeman was born in 1976 in the village of Brexley in North Yorkshire, England. He had been carried to the village in the belly of his mother, Rita, who yearned to be close to her lover and his father, Roy Weston, who was in a vegetative state in a nearby nursing home. Mr. Weston was, of course,...