X 20, 1996: t.p. (Richard Beard) jkt. (b. 1967; studied at Cambridge)

The apostle killer, 2016: ECIP t.p. (Richard Beard)

email from publisher (Melville) 06-17-2016: (Richard Beard; British author; b. in 1967; works include: X20)

Wikipedia, 06-17-2016: (full name: Richard James Beard; b. 12 January 1967; English novelist, non-fiction writer and teacher; born in Swindon, England; he is Director of The National Academy of Writing in London; first novel was: X20, A Novel of Not Smoking (1996); his first work of non-fiction was: Muddied Oafs, The Last Days of Rugger (2003); shortlisted for the 2008 BBC National Short Story Prize and longlisted for the 2010 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award; his short stories have appeared in Granta, Prospect, and have been recorded for BBC Radio 4; in 1997 and 2015 he received an Arts Council Authors Award and in 2000 was the recipient of a grant from the K Blundell Trust; he has been selected as a writer-in-residence at Gladstone's Library)

Sad little men, 2021.