"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
I was a child in Sharlston, then a mining village, and then Crofton, near Wakefield, UK. I went to London University and then did two years as a VSO in Kenya. I then taught in London for 16 years before moving to Brunei technical education. I then worked in Zayed University in the UAE for three years. Since 2003, I have lived in Spain, and have completed a PhD in education’s role in Philippine development and two novels, Mission and A Fool's Knot.
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The Autograph Man presents a potpourri of contemporay life, where everything has a price, but nothing may be of value.
Fortune beckons in gold-rush era New Zealand in this beautifully drawn tale of a family newly emigrated from England.
In The Master, Colm Toibin examines the psychological aspects of Henry James's creativity. It is revealed as an exploiter of experience.
Follows the opportunistic rise of Belram from poverty in rural India to being a Bangalore taxi fleet owner.
Orcar Wilde's rise, celebrity, and downfall are the meat of this masterpiece, presented as the writer's own journal.
John Banville uses fiction to examine a spy's motive and behaviour. Privilege and influence, both assumed, provide the mean.
An enigmatic, complex novel that deals with how writing must filter experience to make sense of it.
The Line Of Beauty is set in 1980s London. Successful people succeed, perhaps, pursuing riches, influence and each other.
Love etc is a love triangle revisited, told in the characters' own voices, a perfect marriage of content and form.
Istanbul's contrasts, characteristics, vistas and sensations are lived through the eyes of Orhan Pamuk's early years.
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