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« The Arrogant Heedless Closure of Police Stations is Nothing New | Main | Please back this petition against masks in schools » Republished to mark new editions of Olivia Manning s Balkan Trilogy some Thoughts on a Neglected Author It’s odd how Portsmouth seems to produce or stimulate writers and stories. Conan Doyle was a penniless doctor in Southsea (grubby, tarry Pompey’s green seaside twin sister). Charles Dickens was born there. H.G. Wells toiled in a draper’s shop in Southsea and hated it. The city features often, with its grotesque, ferocious prostitutes known as ‘Portsmouth Brutes’  in Patrick O’Brian’s matchless series of novels about the Navy in Napoleonic Times, and of course in C.S.Forester’s currently under-rated ‘Hornblower’ stories. The murder victim (as he turns out to be) in Josephine Tey’s  extremely ingenious ‘The Singing Sands’ is a  young man from Portsmouth who used to love crossin

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