A novel in ten acts, following the misadventures of correspondent Jack Telford, from 1945 until his death in 1983. A series of linked long short stories, and short novellas, brought together in Telford’s Odyssey.

‘Odysseus had it easy,’ said Jack Telford. ‘Only adrift for ten years after his war. But me? It’s taken me forty!’ Forty years before he could finally come home. And all those journeys; the places he’d seen; the treacheries he’d known; the enemies he’d managed to make, like Papa Hemingway; the unlikely friendship with young George Harrison; the secrets he’d discovered; the dangers he’d come through. Unscathed? Hardly. Though, just look what he’d found at the end. Had it been worthwhile? Had he made a difference somewhere along the road? Somewhere in those forty long years?

"David Ebsworth is a terrific storyteller. His passion for his subject and his characters grabs you by the throat.”
Elizabeth Buchan – bestselling author of Bonjour, Sophie, Two Women in Rome and The Museum of Broken Promises

DAVID EBSWORTH is the pen name of writer Dave McCall, a former negotiator and workers’ representative for Britain’s Transport & General Workers’ Union. He was born in Liverpool but has lived in Wrexham, North Wales, with his wife, Ann, since 1981.

Following his retirement, Dave began to write historical fiction in 2009 and has now subsequently published fourteen novels: political thrillers set against the history of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War, the Battle of Waterloo, warlord rivalry in Sixth Century Britain, and the Spanish Civil War. His sixth book, Until the Curtain Falls returned to that same Spanish conflict, following the story of journalist Jack Telford, and is published in Spanish under the title Hasta Que Caiga el Telón. The third of his Jack Telford novels, A Betrayal of Heroes, takes Jack into the turmoil of the Second World War but through a series of real-life episodes, which are truly stranger than fiction. Telford’s Odyssey continues to follow Jack’s career and misadventures from 1945 onwards, including the story, The Lisbon Labyrinth, previously published as a novella.

Dave’s Yale Trilogy tells the story of intrigue and mayhem around nabob, philanthropist (and slave-trader) Elihu Yale – who gave his name to Yale University – but told through the eyes of his much-maligned and largely forgotten wife, Catherine.

The eleventh novel, The House on Hunter Street, is a mystery set during the political turmoil of Liverpool in 1911 and, more recently, Dave has published a non-fiction guidebook of Wrexham history, Wrexham Revealed. It was his research for the guidebook which inspired him to write his twelfth novel, Blood Among the Threads, and its sequel, Death Along the Dee.

Each of Dave’s novels has been critically acclaimed by the Historical Novel Society and been awarded the coveted B.R.A.G. Medallion for independent authors. He is also a member of the Crime Cymru Welsh writers’ collective.

For more information on the author and his work, visit his website at www.davidebsworth.com.

"David Ebsworth is a terrific storyteller. His passion for his subject and his characters grabs you by the throat.”
Elizabeth Buchan – bestselling author of Bonjour, Sophie, Two Women in Rome and The Museum of Broken Promises