Palace Pier

"In the early 1960s, a golden age for newly-discovered writers, Chris Duffy was something of a nearly man. His debut novel was reasonably successful; his second was turned down as being too like the first. Thanks to procrastination and heavy drinking, he has published nothing since." "Settled now in Brighton, where he ekes out a living running a market bric-a-brac stall, Duffy dreams of the blurre...