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Contact
How to contact Richard Hall - author, part time recluse, and survivor of many things. As I'm an actual Millennial, generally the best way to contact me is through my social media accounts.
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Meet Richard Hall: Author and Survivor
The official website of Richard Hall I'm a published author now! My memoir I’m Fine was published in August of this year by the amazing Eye Books. I’m so very grateful to everyone at Eye Books for the belief, support and hard work that went into turning my manuscript into a published memoir.…
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Places of support
On a chilly autumn night in 2020, at around 3 a.m., I walked home talking to my phone. I’d taken to recording my thoughts and feelings. I wasn’t in the head space to write properly, and talking was freer, less thought out, it had an openness to it that writing…
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How did a paedophile slip through the net to become a local councillor?
I’ve lost count of the amount of DBS checks I’ve had. DBS stands for Disclosure and Barring Service, and it replaced CRB checks, which was Criminal Records Bureau. I had mine because I was a youth-worker, then I freelanced in schools as an artist, I’ve also needed them for visa…
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Lazy local journalists
I’d been writing about my past and discussing my history with my sister when I found the article detailing Tim’s conviction. My Siter became the first person to challenge the way I was thinking. I was stuck defending him like I was still a kid that needed to do what…