diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+Copyright Owain Lewis (c) 2016
+
+All rights reserved.
+
+Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+
+    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+      notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+
+    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
+      copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
+      disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
+      with the distribution.
+
+    * Neither the name of Owain Lewis nor the names of other
+      contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
+      from this software without specific prior written permission.
+
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+(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
+OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
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+import Distribution.Simple
+main = defaultMain
diff --git a/http-dispatch.cabal b/http-dispatch.cabal
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+name:                http-dispatch
+version:             0.1.0.0
+synopsis:            High level HTTP client for Haskell
+description:         Please see README.md
+homepage:            http://github.com/owainlewis/http-dispatch#readme
+license:             BSD3
+license-file:        LICENSE
+author:              Owain Lewis
+maintainer:          owain@owainlewis.com
+copyright:           2016 Owain Lewis
+category:            Web
+build-type:          Simple
+cabal-version:       >=1.10
+
+library
+  hs-source-dirs:      src
+  exposed-modules:     Network.HTTP.Dispatch.Core
+                     , Network.HTTP.Dispatch.Headers
+                     , Network.HTTP.Dispatch.Types
+  build-depends:       base >= 4.7 && < 5
+                     , http-client
+                     , http-client-tls
+                     , http-types
+                     , bytestring
+                     , aeson
+                     , case-insensitive
+  default-language:    Haskell2010
+
+test-suite http-dispatch-test
+  type:                exitcode-stdio-1.0
+  hs-source-dirs:      test
+  main-is:             Spec.hs
+  build-depends:       base
+                     , http-dispatch
+                     , hspec
+  ghc-options:         -threaded -rtsopts -with-rtsopts=-N
+  default-language:    Haskell2010
+
+source-repository head
+  type:     git
+  location: https://github.com/owainlewis/http-dispatch
diff --git a/src/Network/HTTP/Dispatch/Core.hs b/src/Network/HTTP/Dispatch/Core.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
+module Network.HTTP.Dispatch.Core
+       ( HTTPRequest(..)
+       , HTTPResponse(..)
+       , runRequest
+       , get
+       , post
+       , patch
+       , delete
+       , put
+       , simpleGet
+       , postString
+       , postAeson
+       ) where
+
+import qualified Data.Aeson                    as Aeson (ToJSON, encode)
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy          as LBS
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8    as LBSC
+import           Network.HTTP.Dispatch.Request
+import           Network.HTTP.Dispatch.Types
+
+type Url = String
+
+-- Request API
+
+get :: Url -> [Header] -> HTTPRequest
+get url headers = HTTPRequest GET url headers Nothing
+
+simpleGet :: Url -> HTTPRequest
+simpleGet url = HTTPRequest GET url [] Nothing
+
+-- Post request with a lazy bytestring payload
+post :: Url -> [Header] -> LBS.ByteString -> HTTPRequest
+post url headers body = HTTPRequest POST url headers (pure body)
+
+-- Post request with a string payload
+postString :: String -> [Header] -> String -> HTTPRequest
+postString url headers body = HTTPRequest POST url headers (pure . LBSC.pack $ body)
+
+-- Post request where the payload is some type that has a ToJSON instance defined
+postAeson :: Aeson.ToJSON a => Url -> [Header] -> a -> HTTPRequest
+postAeson url headers body = HTTPRequest POST url headers (pure $ Aeson.encode body)
+
+put :: String -> [Header] -> LBS.ByteString -> HTTPRequest
+put url headers body = HTTPRequest PUT url headers (pure body)
+
+delete :: String -> [Header] -> Maybe LBS.ByteString -> HTTPRequest
+delete url headers = HTTPRequest DELETE url headers
+
+patch :: String -> [Header] -> LBS.ByteString -> HTTPRequest
+patch url headers body = HTTPRequest PATCH url headers (pure body)
diff --git a/src/Network/HTTP/Dispatch/Headers.hs b/src/Network/HTTP/Dispatch/Headers.hs
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+{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
+module Network.HTTP.Dispatch.Headers where
+
+import           Network.HTTP.Dispatch.Types (Header (..))
+
+contentJSON :: Header
+contentJSON = ("Content-Type", "application/json")
diff --git a/src/Network/HTTP/Dispatch/Types.hs b/src/Network/HTTP/Dispatch/Types.hs
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+module Network.HTTP.Dispatch.Types where
+
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as LBS
+
+data HTTPRequestMethod =
+    GET
+  | PUT
+  | POST
+  | PATCH
+  | DELETE deriving ( Eq, Show )
+
+type Header = (String, String)
+
+data HTTPRequest = HTTPRequest {
+   -- A HTTP request method e.g GET POST etc
+    reqMethod  :: HTTPRequestMethod
+  -- A HTTP request URL
+  , reqUrl     :: String
+  -- Optional HTTP headers
+  , reqHeaders :: [Header]
+  -- An optional request body
+  , reqBody    :: Maybe LBS.ByteString
+} deriving ( Eq, Show )
+
+data HTTPResponse = HTTPResponse {
+    -- The response code
+    respStatus  :: Int
+    -- The response headers
+  , respHeaders :: [Header]
+    -- The response body
+  , respBody    :: LBS.ByteString
+} deriving ( Eq, Show )
+
+-- Helper methods
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+withHeader :: HTTPRequest -> Header -> HTTPRequest
+withHeader req header = req { reqHeaders = header : (reqHeaders req) }
+
+withHeaders :: HTTPRequest -> [Header] -> HTTPRequest
+withHeaders req headers = req { reqHeaders = headers }
+
+dropHeaderWithKey :: HTTPRequest -> String -> HTTPRequest
+dropHeaderWithKey req@(HTTPRequest _ _ hdrs _) headerKey =
+  let filteredHeaders = filter (\(k,v) -> k /= headerKey) hdrs in
+      withHeaders req filteredHeaders
+
+withBody :: HTTPRequest -> LBS.ByteString -> HTTPRequest
+withBody req body = req { reqBody = pure body }
+
+withMethod :: HTTPRequest -> HTTPRequestMethod -> HTTPRequest
+withMethod req method = req { reqMethod = method }
diff --git a/test/Spec.hs b/test/Spec.hs
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+{-# OPTIONS_GHC -F -pgmF hspec-discover #-}