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The sixties raged. I was young, crazy, full of hormones and wanting to snatch life by the balls. There was a life out there for the grabbing and it had to be wrestled into submission. There was a society full of boring amoral crap and a life to be had in the face of the boring, comforting vision of slow death on offer. Rock music vented all that passion. This book is a memoir of a life spent immersed in Rock Music. I was born in 1949 and so lived through the whole gamut of Rock. Rock music formed the background to momentous world events – the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, Iraq war, ...

It is the sixties, bedsit land, 301 Green Lanes, and the story of a moment in time, a building and a colourful assortment of characters, some good, some bad. It is also Danny’s story: how he stumbled upon a place to live and a series of unlikely friendships that saved his life. This is the story of a house that became a home. It is the story of an assortment of desperate people who were all lost and some became found. It is a real story of how people who are worthless and have no respect for themselves yet came together to form a community. It is a story that tells us that there is a ...

WARNING – Sexually Explicit and Religiously Dangerous! This book is a sexually explicit expose of religion. If you are easily offended by sex or hold strong religious views I suggest you read no further. Ginny was a young party girl with a close group of friends. Life was good. She had a job she enjoyed and her world was fun. There was the round of parties, clubs, dancing, drugs and sex that provided the spice. Apart from one or two ‘aggravations’ such as getting herself prosecuted for shoplifting life was pretty sorted. Then came the voices and life would never be the same. She had ...

I first met Nick when he was a young child and over the years he has become a close friend.This book illuminates the genius that I feel is Nick Harper and is designed to accompany ‘The Wilderness Years’, a trilogy of vinyl albums. Nick talks candidly about many aspects of his music and career. I include, with Nick’s permission, the lyrics of all the songs featured in the trilogy.There are also many photos dating from his childhood to the present day.

This is the ultimate sixties book – set in the British Underground with all its sex, drugs, dreams and music; those times of crazy people high on life and mad for experience – when anything was possible. It captures that idealistic naïve impossibility permeated with vitality and careering love and dreams, the wild rush for adventure without a thought for the future because the trip was all there was and it was going to last forever. - Seemingly, as Love said: forever changes! The story spans continents as it trips its way through time, space and mind, in a mad rush to discover life and...

This is a story in the distant future on an alien planet; a tale of madness, delusion and intrigue. The Earth is dying from overpopulation, pollution and hopelessness. It is running out of energy and time. An expedition to a far off planet, where a strange ultra-magnetic crystal holds the only hope for fusion energy and an escape from a slow lingering death, is the only possibility for salvation. The expedition is the last of many all of which have ended in terror and failure. Yet is everything as it seems? Are there political forces at work? What is the reality? It gets stranger and ...

This is the story of what goes on in one man’s head; an antinovel in which the mosaic of thoughts, ideas and interactions with friends, colleagues and life build into a picture of a life in crisis. An aging rebel finds himself increasing isolated and craving for a dream that is fading and a promise that never materialised. The compromise of life has created dissatisfaction. He feels split in two with no real identity. He sits at his computer and tries to make sense of the world and his life with its mundaneity, highs and lows. This book is an alternative elegy to a disturbing world.

Sex, death, awe, wonder, fury, birth, life, beauty, politics, religion, anger, nature, love, questions, stories and thoughts are all words. I had to rearrange their meanings. You live your life and then you die. You start a journey that will not end as you expect. From a childhood spent in ditches to a lonesome wait in a ditch. You think you understand. You have relationships with people, animals, possessions and places but you can only guess at the other side. You are aware. You have a moral code you live by. You see how good things could be and, when you wear your Sunday best, you do your...

A voyage to the edge of the universe. The evolution of mankind into god-like super-beings. The explosion of the sun into a supernova. It's all happening in this historic artefact from the late-sixties/seventies. This is a Sci-fi novel, my very first Sci-fi novel, written in 1973-75 - typed on an old second-hand Remington typewriter. I've dusted it off so that I can reacquaint myself with an old friend - the person I used to be. It is a book of its time.

This is the ultimate sixties book – an ‘On the Road’ for the British Underground with all its sex, drugs, dreams and music; those times of crazy people high on life and mad for experience – when anything was possible. It captures that idealistic naïve impossibility permeated with vitality and careering love and dreams, the wild rush for adventure without a thought for the future because it was going to last forever. - Seemingly forever changes! It spans continents as it trips its way through time, space and mind in a mad rush to discover life and experience or die trying. Now was ...

This my thirteenth book of poetry. Morocco, the environmental crisis, politics, religion - from my brain cells to the keys and out onto the page – if it inspires me I write it.I distil my anger, fury, frustration and love into words.They mean a lot to me!

This is my second anthology of poems. I do not claim to be a poet. I have no pretensions in that direction. I just like writing. Sometimes ideas and feelings come out as what I describe as poems and sometimes they come out as my version of novels. For me it is all about communication and playing with words. Words are slippery things, like eels. Their meanings are nuanced. When you put them together they are tinged with other sheen. They wriggle into other forms. A word is amazing. It is a symbol, sometimes for a very tenuous concept, that we are able to use to touch each other with. We ...

This is my seventh book of poetry. Poetry for me is a vehicle to explore and distil my thoughts, attitudes and feelings. These books are not by any means confined to my poems. Each poem is combined with a section of prose. It is intended to illustrate the issues and expose my inner thoughts. The poems included cover a range of subject matter. They range through nature, love, war, religion and social comment. They express my feelings of anger, despair, tenderness as well as love and war. Life is a wonder. A life unexamined is a life unlived. To be involved is to be alive. As I sit here in my...

Amazingly this is my sixteenth book of what I loosely call poetry. Some rhymes and some doesn’t - even if it’s meant to!I like to write poetry with bite. But I also like to write poetry that is a celebration of life, love and nature. There are all sorts in this selection.You might find yourself incensed – but you might find yourself inspired or stimulated to think!

This is the story of a fabulous voyage to South America in 2016 on a two hulled icebreaker called the Marco Polo. Amusing tales, beauty, observations, social asides, photography, politics and the wonders of nature - it is all there…. And more. Rio De Janeiro, Buenos Aires, The Falkland Islands, the magic of Magellan’s Strait plus a dozen more wondrous destinations. The day of the albatrosses, the boobies, petrels, penguins, skuas and frigate birds; the sea-lions and the whales - all the ingredients of a fabulous voyage.

A collection of poems written in 2020 about politics, Trump, Black Lives Matter and America.

Guns, Rhymes, Elephants and Dreams is my 11th book of poems. My poems are the distillations of the thoughts, ideas and dreams that come into my head. They are inspired by the world around me - the good, bad and detestable.I write to make the world better.

I have always been intrigued by the fantasy of life, the mystery of the universe, the gross squalid nature of politics, the destruction of nature and the beauty of love. They are the subjects of my poems.This is my fourteenth volume of poems. The stream is continuous.

Topical Poetry reflecting the age we live in - themes of anti-war, covid, subversion, love, hate, politics and social comment. Trump and Johnson come in for some heavy treatment.

Commentaries on life, from a planet ruled by psychopaths and sociopaths, in a world of inequality, war, poverty and misery, created by us. Commentaries on a planet of awesome beauty in a universe of wonder. Written post Brexit and Trump, in the midst of a pandemic, in a country governed by extremist nationalists led by a clown - in a world on the brink of environmental catastrophe.