The Bikers’ Café
A bikers’ café plays a part in The Price of Dormice story.
It’s fictional, even though it’s located somewhere very similar to Oxfordshire’s well-known bikers’ haunt, H Café, on the Oxford-Reading road, near the northern-most Dorchester turn.
The café in the book is a dingy underworld sort of place.
The H Café is a lovely welcoming spot that does fine traditional food, proper tea and excellent coffee. It greets all-comers as warmly as bikers. Worth a visit! (see photo)
Other Organisations and People
All the people in my fiction are fictitious.
Most of the organisations are fictitious too: including Murdoch Alleyn, Solicitors; Simms & Denby, Accountants; Ballator Construction; St Mark’s College; the Live and Let Live; Harry’s Hash House.
The Price of Dormice is set in Oxfordshire and cannot be told without mentioning certain institutions and job-titles, for example Oxford City Council and its planners; Thames Valley Police, its Commissioner, Chief Constable, officers and civilian staff; Oxford University; etc. My short fiction is set in various places and times. All people and organisations in my fiction are fictitious.
To be completely clear, my writing is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely co-incidental. And of course, no-one would imagine that the real institutions mentioned, or their agents, would act as portrayed in my stories.