SAMPLE PAGES FROM SOME ONGOING WORKS

These are some ongoing works- two memoirs and a novel. See each brief description below and then click the button to review some sample pages.

BUT FIRST- ABOUT THE IMAGES: Except where otherwise mentioned, the majority of images on the site are unedited screen-grabs under licence to Tim Leighton with thanks to the British Film Institute (BFI). https://www.bfi.org.uk/ I have taken them from the iconic British Transport Films series (BTF). Why these? Because I became mesmerized by the instant impressionism, even surrealism – that these films and images bring us- not just of life in Britain from the 50s to the 80s, but of life in general (at least in my world). See ‘The Inner Train’ for more about the BTF imagery.

The Inner Train

Memoir in progress. Not always nostalgic, and saying the things that weren’t said then, here is a frank and personal view of growing up but not fitting in 50s and 60s Britain, finishing with thoughts of suicide.

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The Indelible Hunt

Novel in progress: A pursuit across the ages. They cross paths. Recognition dawns. Memories return. They reach for weapons or for new, worse tricks. One dies. It begins again. But something – not of men – is brewing, beginning to overshadow them….

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Learning To Dance

Memoir in progress: The 70s and 80s. Forget British schools. This is where my education began. I went onto the oceans in ships and discovered worlds – out there and inside me. New darkness. New light. A Cult. The New Age. And ultimately America- where I found home, never expecting to leave….

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