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Words: Pascal Bagot
Dragons Writing a book is not something you do sitting comfortably on your chair. Well, you can, but if you don’t have enough imagination to create entire worlds and civilisations for your stories, you may find yourself doing what most writers do: observing the world around you and taking inspiration from it. Isn’t reality stranger than fiction anyway? When living in Japan, Nick Hurst definitely got hit by his experience in the far East. But when it comes to exploring the underworld of the yakuza and irezumi, you never know where reality can take you. www.nickhurst.co.uk Nick Hurst is the author of the forthcoming thriller Falling from the Floating World which can be ordered at unbound.com/books/falling-from-the-floating-world
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