Books By Kevin W. Bowden - Author

Kevin William Bowden, born on July 27, 1949, in Liverpool, England, is the eldest of four brothers. The house he was born in is long gone, demolished as part of Liverpool's "slum" clearance program. It lacked hot water and electricity, and the toilet was an outhouse at the end of the yard, with yesterday's "Liverpool Echo" newspaper hung on an old rusty nail. He lived there until he was seven. His father worked in radar at Liverpool docks, having served in the Royal Navy much to his mother's disapproval, who declared she would never marry a sailor. His mother worked at "Ogden's - Tobacco" as a stripper, a family joke referring to her job of stripping tobacco leaves. Kevin lived with his Nan and Nin (his mother's mother and grandmother) in a two-up, two-down end-of-terrace house. Nan nursed Nin until she died at the grand age of 96. They shared the same bed at the back, while Kevin, his mother, and father slept in the front bedroom. Kevin spent most of his adult life as a site carpen