Article: From fact to fiction with a very real backdrop; A new saga of working class life was launched last night in Northumberland, as David Whetstone reports.

Byline: David Whetstone

HAVING mined the broad seam of his eventful life for a three-part autobiography, Corbridge writer and former prison officer Robert Douglas has turned to fiction.

Robert - Bob to his many friends - reminds us that his writing career began with an article The Journal published in its old Into Print supplement in the 1990s.

Then, having been encouraged by his tutor on a Workers' Educational Association writing course in Hexham, came book number one, Night Song of the Last Tram, recalling his working class childhood in Glasgow. ...

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