about me

Inaptly called an 'angry young man'in the late 1950s, having precociously written a book on modern poets, an
'autobiography of ideas' and an existentialist play, without a trace of anger in any of them. Improbably morphed
into family man, educational entrepreneur(school of languages), and text-book author in the 1960s. Improvidently resumed writing full-time in the 1970s,whoring in the literary market place to turn out books on the paranormal, alien intelligence and contacts,alternative or 'new age' lifestyles, therapies, science, sex and what-have-you, as well as a personal memoir (precursor of current Authonomy offering) and a book on the life and philosophy of Krishnamurti. Inevitably going through mid-life crisis in the 1980s, resulting in divorce,near-destitution, new relationship, new life in new places, happy itinerant years and eventual coming to roost in the south of France.
Impertinently thought that perhaps an old man's recollections of life and love in times past might be, for some readers, well, still pertinent, well aware that it's all in the telling, hence the 'literary novel' classification.
Incorrigibly, having become re-infected with writing bug,now working on a proper novel.

favourite books

Philip Roth's 'American Pastoral' and 'The Human Stain', Sebastian Faulks' French trilogy, John Updike's 'Rabbit'
trilogy,Robert Harris's 'Imperium' and 'Lustrum', Michael Chabon's 'Kavalier and Clay', William Boyd's 'Any Human
Heart'and 'Brazzaville Beach', Jonathan Franzen's 'The Corrections', Shirley Hazzard's 'Transit of Venus' and 'Bay at Noon', Marilynne Robinson's 'Gideon' and 'Home',and harking back, Anthony Powell's 'Music of Time' sequence, most of Henry James and Joseph Conrad, and because they have been recent reading, Jonathan Bate's Shakespeare biography 'Soul of the Age', Christopher Rush's 'Will'(Shakespeare again, marvellously imagined recollections), Sarah Bakewell's 'How to Live: A Life of Montaigne',and the essays of Montaigne himself

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