Alan Wilkinson was invited to speak at the Alderney Literary Festival 2018, and undertook a tour of Mid-West states in the USA in 2017.

“Many of us – perhaps all of us – when we were young, had ‘cowboy dreams’. Alan Wilkinson has re-made them afresh, without sentimentality or too much fantasy. This is a delightful book. I have been a fan of Alan Wilkinson’s very distinctive writing for a long time and am so very happy to see this publication.” Sara Maitland, author of A Book of Silence and Daughter of Jerusalem

After a degree in American Studies, and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, Alan Wilkinson was appointed Jack Kerouac Writer in Residence in Florida. But his great love has always been the American West, where he has explored the wilderness on foot, on horseback, by bike and canoe. And it was a Fellowship at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, New Mexico that afforded him the space and time needed to complete this debut novel.