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Born in 1933 in Keighley, he attended Keighley Boys' Grammar School and graduated in English at Leeds University in 1954. After university, he served in the Intelligence Corps, where his gained his wings as a paratrooper. A keen sportsman in his youth, he played rugby in both codes and won a county cap for Sussex.
He now lives in Shrewsbury where he taught, and has ministered in the prison there for the past thirty years.
The Quill Hedgehog novels are a series of children's environmental novels with animal characters. The first, Quill's adventures in the great beyond, was written in the 1960s as a protest against pollution and urbanisation of the countryside.
The Revd Detective Inspector Blake Hartley novels are set in the spectacular Yorkshire Pennine country. The lead character is an Anglican Non-Stipendiary priest, who with his loyal Muslim sergeant, Ibrahim Khan, solves crime on their home patch of Keighworth, West Yorkshire.
Chance Child (Part one) is a romantic historical novel set in the West Riding and Prague between 1930 and 1945, covering events leading to the outbreak of war and the war itself. The novel contains strong emotional content and portrays a violent battle between members of the English class system, as well as their war against the Nazis. Part two covers events from 1945-60.
Three plays by John Waddington-Feather are currently in print. Garlic Lane is a one-act humorous verse-play play set in West Yorkshire in the 1950s. First produced at Leeds Civic Theatre in 1972, it was revised and given a rehearsed reading by Bingley Little Theatre in 1998. In 1999 it was awarded the Burton Prize and described by one critic as the best verse-play since Under Milk Wood. A recording of the play was made live at Bingley Little Theatre in 1998 and is available on compact disc. Easy Street is a humorous full-length verse-play set over a week (a day for each Sin) in a West Yorkshire mill town, with the Seven Deadly Sins acting as Narrators introducing each day's action. It was first produced at Leeds Civic Theatre in the 1970s and subsequently revised. The lollipop man is a full-length play about the homeless and much else based on the author's experiences as chaplain in a Night Shelter and Prison. Staged in Yorkshire in autumn 2002 and published 2003.
Other books by the author include Visions in the winter dark, Yorkshire Dialect and Times and seasons Visions in the winter dark contains translations of three early Anglo-Saxon Christian poems with an Introduction for newcomers to Anglo-Saxon verse by Walter Nash. Yorkshire dialect is a comprehensive survey of the origins of English dialects and a selection of Yorkshire dialect literature from the 8th century poet Caedmon to the present. Times and seasons is a collection of hymns and songs by David Grundy and John Waddington-Feather.
Quill's adventures in the great beyond
Quill's adventures in wasteland
Quill's adventures in Grozzieland
Quill's adventures in Mereful
Quill's adventures in Humanfolkland [to be published in
2005]
Legends of Americada
Legend land
The Bradshaw mystery
The museum mystery
The Marcham mystery
The graveyard mystery
The author has his own website where full details of his books can be found. Visit http://www.waddysweb.freeuk.com/
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1 February 2005
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