Martin Hesp
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Martin Hesp

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Martin Hesp grew up in a West Country village with one ambition in mind - to follow in the footsteps of his journalist father. By the age of 17 he was working as a junior reporter for a local newspaper and the experiences he gleaned on this rural newsdesk were to set him up for what has become a varied and diverse career in journalism. After two years of wedding reports, village fetes and flower shows, Martin took the opportunity to explore a wider world. He travelled extensively for more than a decade as a freelance journalist filing copy as a contracted journalist for Features International and also as a regular contributor to The Guardian newspaper. Since the birth of his first child in 1988 Martin (with partner Sue, who's an artist) has lived a slightly more conventional life running a video-production company alongside working under contract as a radio reporting for BBC radio and the BBC World Service as well as feature-writing for newspapers. In 2000 Martin began working for the main daily newspaper in the South West - the Western Morning News - first as a freelance feature writer and for the past eight years as Senior Staff Writer. Now with two children, the couple live just outside a small village inside Exmoor National Park. Martin has in recent years won the regional Feature Writer and twice won Environment Journalist EDF Energy Awards. He has also extended his broadcasting career to television presenting on regional BBC and ITV and has just has his first novel, The Last Broomsquire, published. Martin has now uploaded a new novella as an ebook which is available on Amazon. The Cornish Snapper (and the Spinning Pilgrim) is the first in what he hopes will be a series of novellas about a brilliant newspaper photographer who is able to solve crime by astute observation - both out in the real world where he is taking photographs and by scrutinising the resultant digital images. All the action takes place in Cornwall, England's most westerly - and one of its most beautiful counties - and area where Martin visits every week of his working life.
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