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 underworldy 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 warmly, bikers or not. Worth a visit!
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 and its Commissioner, Chief Constable, officers and civilian staff; Oxford University; etc. Of course, no-one would imagine that any real institutions mentioned, or their agents, would act as portrayed in my stories.
My short fiction is set in various places and times. All people and organisations in my short fiction are fictitious.
If you feel I have written something that reflectes badly on your name, organisation or reputation, please be assured it was inadvertant; please let me know; please accept my apologies; and please don’t sue me.