 NOVELS
Rough Cut is both a picaresque and epic tale - a genre-bending odyssey
set all over the world, and covering several decades - about the movies, travel, teaching, the Berlin Wall, drinking,
writing, vampires, Nazis, lady boys, Notting Hill, Ireland, the High Atlas, India, dope, the pyramids, Coney Island, several
other islands, the tsunami and much, much more. Wide Angle is the first of three parts. (The
others are Deep Focus and Jump Cut)...
World's
End tells the story of a writer who has painted himself into the corner - quite literally - and finds himself at the
mercy of friends, creditors, lovers and his own troubled and distorted memories while time hurtles backwards to the sound
of Fidelio and gale warnings in his white, very white room. Also in three parts, here is the first...
Cupid's Hypodermic is a short novel - set in a
pre-AIDS world - about the foolish and addictive things we do for love, and the terrible danger we place ourselves
in when we allow beauty and desire to rule our lives. Former theatrical star Leontine Llaste has two sons: one hideous and
awful; the other beautiful, charming - and utterly seductive. Read the first two of seven chapters...
Anglo-Tuscans is a work in progress - a dark and funny tale from the Italian
hills, where a mixture of nationalities gather - and many cultures clash - while the English continue the long struggle
to meld themselves into the heart of Tuscany...
POETRY
Blood Road is
a recent poem about Buchenwald and leads the collection Poems For Translation, which includes A Dying
Child, Lovers, An Evil Future, After The Trojan War, The Bottle, The Drowned Man, Boy In A Wet Suit, The Universe...
Sea Of Green is a poem about recent events in Iran. A few translations
are included: Persian, French, Swedish...
Kali Yuga is
from the collection Children Of Manu (many of the poems are about India), a selection of which is included here:
the title poem Children Of Manu, Stilled Life, Africa And Golden Joys, The British Council
Library Delhi, The Traveller And The Major, The Lion-Tailed Macaque, First Impressions, The
Sun God, Thanks For Being Ugly Today, A Modern Rajput, A Lot Of Learning...
Living Inside Strangers is the very long title poem from
this collection about alienation. Also In An English Topiary, High C, House Of God, Dildos
And Brine, Panthers In The Room...
The
Beggar With A Blue Violin was inspired by a train journey in Java: 'I've seen all sorts of beggars in
my time but only once did I see a beggar with a blue violin'...
City
Of The Dead was written in Cairo in 2010...
Warnings In The Mist was written in Oporto in 2009...
Urban Imagination marks the start of a new collection, The Accidental Post-Modernist...
SHORT STORIES
A
selection from The Foreign And The Familiar: Sunny From California, Remorse, Archimedes' Bathtime and
The Official Mind ...
PHOTOGRAPHS
Mobile
phone pictures from all over the world, updated regularly. Currently showing India, Vietnam, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic,
Italy, Australia, Portugal, USA, Spain, French Polynesia, Britain, France, Cuba, Jamaica, Trindad, Mexico, Egypt...
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