A life in words

Douglas is a retired advertising writer and communications business owner. 

He has two self-published comedic crime novels in the Windelton series set in an imaginary northern town during the early 1960s. 

Douglas has had several short stories published online by Fairlight Books in Oxford. 

He also publishes a weekly Substack, Diary of a Baby Boomer at www.douglasadamson.substack.com and regularly contributes editorial pieces and short stories for Radio for the Blind in his local area. 

Work in progress includes:

Rotten Riding – a prequel to the Windelton series which will complete the trilogy.

The Third Apology – a work of recent historical fiction. The narrative registers the lives of three young individuals in 1968, 1988 and 2008 with roots that reach back to occupied France in 1944. It is a story of love, betrayal and reconciliation. The consequences of the past never die. 

This work is currently under editorial assessment. 

He also plans to publish an:

Anthology of Ten Short Stories 

Titles include:

  • The Miner who would be a Gannet
  • Murder on the Duchy Estate
  • The Return
  • Saved by Swifts
  • Too Hot to Die
  • The Dinner Party
  • Early Morning Boy
  • A Special Gift
  • The Winter Madness of the Lighthouse Keeper
  • A Christmas Home Coming  

Douglas publishes under the title D A Adamson to avoid confusion with the celebrated, late author of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.  

He lives with his wife, six hens and a cockerel in a village in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.  

The Windelton Absurdities and Windelton and the Bavarian Incident by D A Adamson are available to buy as paperbacks or as Kindle editions from Amazon books.

To read his weekly Diary of a Baby Boomer series please go to:

www.douglasadamson.substack.com

If you would like to communicate with Douglas he can be reached at:

author@watershed-consulting.com