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A Film maker, writer and video artist. In the 80s I produced rock videos for Creation, Beggar's Banquet and RCA America. For the last 12 years I've been running a film production company in the UK. Over the last five years we've commissioned 22 artists films through the Critical Mass project, most of which can be bought on DVD through our ebay shop (search for ebay seller ID threshold-studios) Secret Cages is my first novel.

favourite books

written on the body - jeanette winterson
the atrocity exhibition / crash - jg ballard
naked lunch / dead fingers talk - william burroughs
black spring / air-conditioned nightmare - henry miller
diary of a nobody - george & weedon grossmith
something wicked this way comes - ray bradbury
hawksmoor - peter ackroyd
the vision and the voice - aleister crowley
the black corridor - michael moorcock
steppenwolf - herman hesse
jealousy - alain robbe-grillet

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Secret Cages

Barry Hale

Reality disintegrates as the last days of a l'Amour Fou are mirrored on the riot-torn streets of Paris.


Paris. Spiritual home of Lovers, Surrealists, Revolutionaries...

The Snow Girl wakes from her five thousand years of sleep beneath Arctic ice and reality disintegrates on the riot-torn streets of Paris. As the residents tear down their own homes the last days of a passionate affair are mirrored in the destruction of the city. Lucid dreams, hallucinations and the distorted memories of an English childhood collide with the fractured present as an all-consuming l'Amour Fou threatens to lead a man to his own spectacular destruction.

 

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I wrote 566 days ago

thanks alva, I enjoyed writing it and intended to send myself dizzy with it. Don't think I want to rewrite this particular novel, but am taking the lessons I learned from it and applying those to the new one - aiming to make that much more accessible and possibly even commercial! B view book

I wrote 713 days ago

wow thanks for that nick - yes, although there are narratives and implications galore in their I too wanted to drown as I wrote it - drown in images, conflicting interpretations of events, words themselves. How much of our dreams shape who we are, our attitudes to life - how much of our lives shoul... view book

I wrote 718 days ago

don't know how I missed this alan - it looks fantastic - right up my street - have put it on the watchlist - things a bit crazy this week but will get around to it in the next fortnight view book

I wrote 718 days ago

thanks peter for the encouraging word - yes you have me square within your sights - I read a lot of surrealist literature about the time I was embarking on this novel and loved the work of breton, leiris, aragon, octave mirbeau et al. Creation would be a wonderful home - they're on my list.... -... view book

I wrote 718 days ago

thanks alan for the encouraging word - yes you have me square within your sights - I read a lot of surrealist literature about the time I was embarking on this novel and loved the work of breton, leiris, aragon, octave mirbeau et al. Creation would be a wonderful home - they're on my list.... - ... view book

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