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about me
I'm Irish, but have spent most of my life outside the country, currently dividing my time between Ireland and Germany.
Have worked as an English teacher and a textbook editor/author. Now free-lancing, which facilitates the 'dividing my time' bit., plus writing for fun.
I like music, choral singing, beer, wine, whiskey, chocolate, cats, arguments and puzzles.
If you don't like the latter, maybe you'd better steer clear of my stories: All that detail may be too much for you, since you can't know what's important and what isn't.
But if you do like puzzles, I hope you'll enjoy reading my stories as much as I enjoyed writing them!
favourite books
Restricting myself to 16 (sort of), I come up with the following cross-section -
Fiction:
George Eliot. Middlemarch (1872)
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night (1935)
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979 - 84)
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (1980/83)
Roddy Doyle, The Commitments (1988)
Ruth Rendell, Road Rage (1997)
Michael Frayn, Headlong (1999)
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
Faction:
Anonymous (actually: Joe Klein), Primary Colors (1996)
Non-fiction:
Brenda Maddox, Nora (1988)
Stephen Pinker, The Language Instinct (1994)
Alison Gopnik (et al), How Babies Think (1999)
Bob Dylan, Chronicles (2004)
Brian Sykes, Saxons Vikings and Celts (2004)
Andrew Sachs, Musicophilia (2007)
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