Upperdown Format:Paperback

Upperdown Format:PaperbackUpperdown, David Brennan's debut novel, is a dark reimagining of 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin'. Things in the town of Upperdown are not as they seem. The Professor struggles with his devotion to proving the Riemann Hypothesis and he walks the streets seeking a solution whilst battling his own deeper preoccupations. The appearance of a stranger in town, the Piano Man, leads to the resolution of the rat infestation but when the town's children start to go

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Things of Substance brings together poems written over the last six years with selected pieces from earlier publications

the lean years of his childhood during World War II and his father’s detention in a German concentration camp

And his teacher's not happy about it

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many of them his close friends

such as sorting clothes and arranging the funeral

blood/heritage

It is the overheard world

Landscapes in Wales also recur throughout the book