Ed Jowsey
Ed Jowsey is Emeritus Professor at Northumbria University in England and has written several successful academic books (as Ernie Jowsey) including ‘Real Estate Economics.’ As Ed Jowsey he has written many occasional pieces for The Daily Telegraph in the UK.
Ed's novels include:
- Road Music, a contemporary road novel;
- Amy's Law, a fast-paced crime thriller;
- Border Reivers, an exciting and authentic historical novel set in Sixteenth Century England/Scotland.
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Road Music
In Road Music I have written a novel which is inspired by the songs of one of the world’s greatest songwriters. The objective was to create a realistic and very readable adventure that captures the reader’s imagination with relatable, often unusual, characters. The principal character of Road Music is Richie Porter, a singer songwriter who discovers that he has only six months to live. This pushes him to search out adventures and inspiration for his songs. He quits his small-town comfortable existence and seeks out new experiences. Trying to help people brings its own problems, however, and before long Richie has inadvertently killed the wife-beating husband of a woman he met on a train….
Richie’s journey is an emotional rollercoaster as he seeks adventure because he does not want to just ‘fade out.’ Road Music is full of visual imagery and exciting and colourful characters.
Amy's Law
Amy Shaw has a problem. The bad guys have killed her fiancée and they raped her. Now they want to kill her. The police can’t help. She has to rely on herself: Amy’s Law applies now.
In Amy’s Law I have written a powerful story of how there is always something you can do no matter what terrible events life throws your way. Doctor Amy Shaw’s seemingly charmed life is shattered when two drunk and drugged criminals smash into her and her fiancée.
James is killed and she is badly injured. Then the law is incredibly lenient on the two drug dealers. She becomes withdrawn and depressed after being brutally raped by one of them. She decides that she needs to rediscover her self-respect and she enrols for self-defence classes. As her confidence grows she begins to seek her own justice. Any way she can.
Moving at a fast pace this is a tale of the fortitude within us and of the resilience of a young intelligent woman against the evils of men.
Border Reivers
This historical novel is set in the England-Scotland border region in the Sixteenth Century, a few years after the battle of Flodden. A group of children are searching for treasure on the recent battlefield when one of them is kidnapped by Scottish reivers (or raiders). This sets off a series of events and adventures for Will Robson, who suffers the betrayal and murder of his family before being kidnapped himself and taken to be a slave in Scotland.
Will’s struggle against the border reivers and the battles and landscape of the region in the Sixteenth Century, frame the personal ordeals of the main characters. Their journeys through dark times are an uplifting tale that illustrates the enduring nature of the human spirit.
This is a period of history that is very rarely written about and yet it is incredibly interesting and important to the geopolitics of the time. Much that is known comes from Sir Walter Scott’s ballads of the border reivers and as such it is often exciting and romanticised.
Academic Books by
Ernie Jowsey
