about me

I am a novelist featured recently on BBC Radio 4's You and yours programme regarding vanity publishing and my first novel which i would like to discuss here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s2p3y#p007n33y
please refer to chapter 4 of the programme. I am also a trained actor with experience and have been published on various websites and publications. I also teach and lecture about the romantic poets and do guided tours of the home of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Coleridge cottage was featured this year on BBC 1's countryfile on national TV. My literature tutor at Bournemouth Arts University was the architectural academic and author Gijs van Hensbergen.

I am pleased to announce that "The Vril Codex" formerly on this site is legitamately published -
my email is benmanninguk@yahoo.co.uk -

favourite books

lyrical ballads by samuel taylor coleridge and william wordsworth
adventures of sherlock holmes by sir arthur conan doyle
holy blood and the holy grail by michael baigent
animal farm by george orwell
candide by voltaire
I Claudius by Robert Graves
fal of the house of usher by edgar allen poe
a christmas carol by charles dickens
the mezzotint by MR James
whistle and i'll come to you by mr james
the picture of dorian gray by oscar wild
the women in black by susan hill
death of a salesman by arthur miller
Brave new World by Aldous Huxley
the exorcist by William Peter Blatty
psycho by Robert Bloch
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
Genesis of the Daleks by Terrence Dicks(Dr Who)

my websites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s2p3y#p007n33y     http://vrilcodex.blogspot.com/