Saved: How an English Village Fought for Its Future... and Won [Kindle Edition]

David Hewson (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

...a revelatory account of how the power and instant communication facilities of the internet can change the face of modern democracy." Best of British "David Hewson writes thrillers. Saved is a real life thriller, exposing the sham of "local democracy". A must for all those wanting to save their countryside and communities from the concrete mixers and the planning fixers." -- Robin Page, Countryside writer and broadcaster

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Review
...a revelatory account of how the power and instant communication facilities of the internet can change the face of modern democracy." Best of British "David Hewson writes thrillers. Saved is a real life thriller, exposing the sham of "local democracy". A must for all those wanting to save their countryside and communities from the concrete mixers and the planning fixers." -- Robin Page, Countryside writer and broadcaster

Product Description
SAVED is the inside story of one of the biggest environmental campaign victories in recent years. It's the entertaining and occasionally shocking David and Goliath story of how a small village defeated a GBP1 billion plan to concrete over some of the most protected countryside in England.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 353 KB
• Publisher: David Hewson; 1 edition (March 10, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004RR1696
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #445,093 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

David Hewson's novels have been translated into a wide range of languages, from Italian to Japanese, and his debut work, Semana Santa, set in Holy Week Spain, was filmed with Mira Sorvino. Dante's Numbers is his thirteenth published novel.

David was born in Yorkshire in 1953 and left school at the age of seventeen to work as a cub reporter on one of the smallest evening newspapers in the country in Scarborough. Eight years later he was a staff reporter on The Times in London, covering news, business and latterly working as arts correspondent. He worked on the launch of the Independent and was a weekly columnist for the Sunday Times for a decade before giving up journalism entirely in 2005 to focus on writing fiction.

Semana Santa won the WH Smith Fresh Talent award for one of the best debut novels of the year in 1996 and was later made into a movie starring Mira Sorvino and Olivier Martinez. Four standalone works followed before A Season for the Dead, the first in a series set in Italy. The seventh Roman novel featuring Nic Costa and his colleagues, Dante's Numbers, appeared in October 2008. At the end of 2006 he signed renewed contracts with Pan Macmillan in the UK and Bantam Dell in the US to extend the series to nine books, running to 2012. The titles are published in numerous languages around the world including Chinese and Japanese... and Italian.

He has featured regularly on the speaker lists of leading international book events, including the Melbourne and Ottawa writers' festivals, the Harrogate Crime Festival, Thrillerfest, Bouchercon and Left Coast Crime. He has taught at writing schools around the world and is a regular faculty member for the Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference in Corte Madera, California, where he has worked alongside writers such as Martin Cruz Smith and Michael Connelly.