After which, he moved down south - mid 90s - and eventually further still to the South of France for a few years, where he taught English. He was a 'mature student', though maybe not as mature as he would like to think, looking back. In time, he fell in love with the idea of languages, French in particular, and went on to get a BA Hons in French Language and Literature with subsidiary Spanish, at The University of Sheffield. J' His academic education came much later, from scratch, in a sense. It's around this time and place that his novel is set - 'Wood, Talc and Mr.
Spent - or misspent, whichever your viewpoint - the majority of his 'young' years on the Northern Soul circuit. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īorn and bred in the city of steel: Sheffield.
J, set in 1970s northern England, to which each of these posts refers, by way of comparing its numerous themes with how we might view them today. Who knows, he may even persuade you to purchase his debut novel, Wood Talc & Mr. And sometimes, well, he’s completely flummoxed. Sometimes he’s amused sometimes he’s bemused. What you’ll find here are 22 of his favourite posts carefully chosen from his own website, and from a writer who never claims to own the answers to his queries and observations, but who simply articulates them as they, seemingly, seek to trip him over – he’s adept enough at tripping over his own shoe-laces. Maybe that one is down to you, the reader. to a place like, say, where fangs are still utilized for ripping into more traditional foods. And to generally find his way around in the attempt all with the lofty dream of becoming a known author an author of merit and for the right reasons: to bring literature back down to earth. An author from another time, endeavouring to unearth space in today’s cyber world – and hopefully be less ambiguous with his planetarian/galactic metaphors.
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