Merseyside author Louis Julienne uses the Toxteth Riots as the backdrop for his first novel "Pure Passion".
And he claims that the racist attitudes in society that gave rise to the 1981 "uprising" remain embedded in the life of the city.
"Pure Passion" tells the story of Lizzie Leung, a sixty-year-old widow, raising her family in the city during some of the city's most troubled and turbulent times, and the years that followed.
The novel examines themes including racism - an issue that Liverpool-born Julienne considers to be as apparent now, as it was when he left the city thirty years ago.
Speaking to Click Liverpool, Julienne, 64, said: 'You go into the city's shops and there is never a black person serving behind the counter. It was the same before I left and nothing seems to have changed.
"The Riots where my initial starting point for the story but the narrative spans over the next twenty years."
He returned to Liverpool five years ago, after living in London and Paris, to write the novel, admits that although the characters are fictional there are plenty of annecdotes stemming from Liverpool life.
He said: 'A lot of what the characters experience throughout the novel are based on facts.'
It has taken Louis thirty years to venture into fiction despite having numerous articles and reports published and he hopes it will not be his last.
Plans for a a second novel about his time living in Paris and even a sequel to 'Pure Pressure' are being discussed.
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