22nd July 1990. Unemployed and back home in Didcot, for sale Oxfordshire with my parents….aged 31..not good. So what do I do..apart from a lot of off the cards building work and fencing and green party activism…this..I start writing a rural novel…..obviously.. Hand typed ( I didn’t type) on an old 60’s Office Remington I…
creative writing M.A.
1985 Carver Short Stories……my most important purchase?
Some time in 1985 or 1986 possibly during a very cold winter, as I recall sheets of ice around a phone box on Plymouth Hoe, I purchased a new book in a Plymouth bookshop. This is significant because I very rarely purchase anything at full price having been trained in second-hand shops from art school…
My book challenge fail..Faction?
Firstly it not a collection of short stories DOH…. Well my weekly book challenge failed miserably but I did read one book in the week which a first for me in a long while :-). The chosen book was John Berendt’s ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’ a strange choice randomly picked up…
The 10 books that left a lasting impression challenge….
1. The Victor Comic 1966 My step-grandfather was illiterate and had the Victor comic in his farm labourer’s cottage to help him to learn to read..I remember reading it to him when he in his sixties as he puffed clouds of tobacco around my head from his pipe….I was 7. 2.  Ian Allen Combined Locoshed Book…
Creative Writing M.A. starts Monday…
Well all change or rather back to where I was already…..after a 10 year pause. When I first moved to Nottingham in 2002 I came from a relationship and career (one Spanish the other Oxford University Boldeian Library) that had both broken….and after a disastrous sojourn in London I asked my best friend from school…