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Peter Mortimer - poet, playwright, journalist, publisher - has lived in the North East for thirty years, and many of his books and plays have been published and performed here. His books include: The Last of the Hunters: Life with the Fishermen in North Shields; I Married the Angel of the North (poetry); Off the Wall: the Journey of a Play; and Cool for Qat, which grew out of his commission to write a play about the 1930 Yemeni seamen's riot in South Shields; and Camp Shatila - a Writer's Chronicle, grew from two months towards the end of 2008, when he lived in Shatila Refugee Camp, Beirut.
Peter Mortimer won the 2009 CIC Cultural Diversity Award for the North-East (Arts Category) for his Shatila work. He was shortlisted for the Arab British Culture & Society Award 2010.
Peter Mortimer's latest book is Uninvited: a novella.
A solitary and private man arrives home to find an uninvited stranger in his house. Over a 40 hour period, despite various attempts, the man is unable to get rid of the stranger, who increasingly becomes a threat to the man's routine, and his mental wellbeing. In the final chapter of a claustrophobic and darkly humorous novella, the book takes an unexpected turn.
Uninvited has been forty years in the making - which Peter calculates is an average of a word and a half per day. Now at last it is complete, and available from Red Squirrel Press.
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Last update: 22nd July 2010