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Jason Webster

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Jason Webster is a highly acclaimed Anglo-American author and authority on Spain whose work ranges from biography to travel, crime fiction and history. His books have sold in over a dozen countries, including the US, the UK and China, and have been nominated both for the Guardian First Book Award and the Crime Writers’ Association New Blood Dagger Award. He has been favourably compared with writers such as Bruce Chatwin (The Daily Mail), Gerald Brenan (El País) and Ernest Hemingway (Sunday Telegraph).

Webster was born near San Francisco and brought up in the UK, Germany and Italy. After finishing a degree in Arabic and Islamic History at the University of Oxford, he worked as an editor at the BBC World Service for several years before becomi
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Superb Blood Med review

I’m gobsmacked by Barry Forshaw’s incredible review in today’s Daily Express for BLOOD MED:

“Webster [is] one of the most creative writers working within the field of crime fiction… There is an army of literary sleuths vying for our attention, but Webster’s unconventional protagonist is something special, vividly characterised… Apart from the powerful central narrative, the descriptions of a desper

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“We found the Plaza Mayor, an odd square with an elegant baroque town hall on one side, and ugly 1960s blocks on the other three. A”
Jason Webster, Duende: A Journey In Search Of Flamenco

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