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This is why German author Uwe Johnson spent the last years of his life in Sheerness
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Updated: 07:14, 22 January 2021
Towards the end of 1974, a stranger arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey.
He could often be found sitting on a favourite stool at the bar of the Napier pub, drinking Hurlimann lager and smoking French Gauloises cigarettes while flicking through the pages of the local paper.
Portrait of German writer Uwe Johnson in 1974
âCharlesâ was the name he offered to new acquaintances but the mystery man with a German accent never encouraged probing questions about where he was from and why he was there.