Biography
Martin Selwood has been creative writing for some 40 years. Over that time has had published nearly 50 historical and technical articles in national publications in this country and in America.  Forward Press of Peterborough have published many of his poems and short stories and he has written several (as yet unaccepted) scripts for television and film. He has won six awards in song contests and was for nine years secretary of the Havant and District writers' circle, and for seven years was the organising secretary for the successful Dorothy Mauger short story competition. He has self-published two books – one a joint effort called Twenty Funny Sketches, the other a book of fiction called The Spanish Connection.

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The Spanish Connection by Martin Selwood
Keydell Press (ISBN 978-0956222305)
£8.50
Nigel Collins has just returned from a short holiday in Spain in his brand new BMW. He is held up in a long traffic queue due to an accident. While waiting, he walks ahead to talk to an old friend and to while away the time they look through some photographs. Once the traffic starts moving, Nigel walks back to his car, but it isn't there.  He flags down an old Mini, asking the driver, a young lady, for a lift, which she reluctantly gives him, taking him to the nearest Police station. After registering his loss, the Police suggest a Hotel for him to stay, the Forest Hotel, where to his surprise he finds that the young lady who gave him a lift lives, while on holiday, with her parents, who own the Hotel. She works as a social worker in the Portsmouth area and has a step sister who in contrast to herself is very flighty. They join Nigel in trying to get information about the whereabouts of his missing car, enduring many adventures while doing so.

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