A moving manifesto in poems and essays, inviting readers to embrace their humanity and live fully alive in our age of social change, hyper-capitalism, and pervasive lonelinessyes, everyone is struggling right nowso please be graciousbe kind & patient, but subvertevery institution that relies on our sufferingSomething isn’t right. Every generation thinks that, but we have more cause than most. The way...

Is it still a safe place, when the dead don't leave?Inspired by true events.The new owner of a house experiences a series of bizarre and supernatural events, leading to the uncovering of a terrible secret from the past and a terrifying presence that must be faced to restore peace to the home.

A woman moving calamitously into middle-age; a musician taking in a friend with terminal cancer; a failed actor moving to the country: cynical, unreliable, sinking into middle age or alcoholism, dealing with physical decline or mediocrity, Gates's characters are a dark reflection of our own urban and suburban lives. Terrifyingly self-aware, overcome by the burdens of the human condition, they find their impulses pulling them away from comfort into distraction or catastrophe. But wherever i...

Peter Jernigan's life is slipping out of control. His wife's gone, he's lost his job and he's a stranger to his teenage son. Worse, his only relief from all this reality - alcohol - is less effective by the day. And when the medicine doesn't work, you up the dose. And when that doesn't work, what then? (Apart from upping the dose again anyway, because who knows?)Jernigan's answer is to slowly turn his caustic wit on everyone around him - his wife Judith, his teenage son Danny, his ...

David E. Gates brings you a joyful reminiscence of his days of motorcycling. A memoir for bikers, and bike-likers, of all ages, everywhere.Experience the thrills and spills of a young man's foray into motorcycling. From simple scooters to high-powered super-bikes, from commuters to tourers, revel in the highs and lows from the author that brought you Omonolidee.

From the author of Access Denied, The Roots of Evil, The Wretched and Cinema, comes a unique selection of original poems.Featuring historical reference poems such as "The Mary Celeste", "The Mother of Angola", "The Ode of Phineas Gage" and tributes to The Queen and King Charles III along with silly rhymes, David E. Gates expresses his love and frustration with the world today.Let yourself dip into the Realm of Rhyme.With additional material from Karen Moore.

A new anthology of short stories by David E. Gates.Featuring tales of the macabre such as The Blood, Croc, The Crash, The Ghosts of Gribble and You're Next along with short, flash-fiction stories including The Devil Needs Payin' and The Search.More than 30 original stories, many of which have never been previously published.

David E. Gates recounts his time at City of Portsmouth Boys School and the adventures, or misadventures perhaps would be a better description, whilst he attended the famed institution.

Join David E. Gates and his golfing buddies as they travel to the Dolce Campo Real Resort in Lisbon, Portugal for the David E. Gates Memorial Cup 2019.

A place of solace, of escape, of emotion, of excitement, of wonder, of immersion, of revelation and of learning, the cinema has been more than simply movie-going for many people.Join David E. Gates as he explores his experiences and the impact and legacy which they have had upon him and his life in Cinema.With additional material from Deb Hallett.

BD's Rock Show, the phenomenal local radio rock show that was broadcast on Express FM in Portsmouth, (and world-wide via the internet), between 2006 and 2020 showcased BD & Thrashman's unique, anarchic, juvenile and comedic style to an audience of listeners that had never heard the like of such a show before.What Wayne's World did for evoking memories of their teenage years, BD's Rock Show did for BD & Thrashman's lunacy and passion for rock, hard rock and heavy me...

A torrid tale of turgid travel in Devon and Cornwall.Join David E. Gates and his girlfriend as they travel to Devon and Cornwall for a nice break away from it all that turns out to be anything but nice!Part of the Omonolidee series.