To understand Take Down The Flags you have to go back a few years. The original idea was a collection of short stories based on real life memories from people who had experienced war and the aftermath. What did they remember? Was it all misery? Did they wave the flags when the ceasefire happened? Did they actually – miss – it? Instead of just writing up what they said I have used (with their permission) their stories and recollections as a basis to form various stories. Names and ...

A collection of prose. Orginally published in 2011.

A middle-aged author of elite fiction watches a film adaptation of his first book and is immediately enraptured by the young actor in the leading role. Captivated and, increasingly, consumed: he discovers more about the person, his life, finds old photographs, kisses them – and more. Eventually, his mania takes him to a meeting and a pathetically awful denouement. Everything Could Be So Perfect is an engaging study of an obsession bordering on madness.

Even When Tonight Is Over is a collection of short stories written over the years. The stories deal with life, death, love and passion but each with their own hidden meaning which may mean something different for the individual reader. The energy of lust is described in L’Amour Looks Something, while passion hidden behind a mask is discovered in Lord Of The Reedy River. The book starts with Another Day, the birth of love and completes its journey with Nocturne, a time to let go.Ori...

"It's about the excitement at the start of a magical love affair.""It's about being in love, everyone knows apart from the person you're in love with.""It's about a fear of the dark which can be conquered by somebody you love being there.""It's about the end of a possibility, the end of hope.""It's about dreaming.""It's about escape and flying.""It's about winning.""It's about an idealistic gay utopia, but looking back in hindsight it...

The beautiful summer of 1937.A newspaper advertisement.A small clifftop villa for rent, above a bay and small inlet on the French Riviera. Four women, lost in a world of love, marriage widowhood and regret, come together and all are drawn to the sunshine and shores of the Mediterranean. They clash, bond and blossom in the warmth of the summer, and find their spirits stirring when quite unexpected changes occur. Introducing Mrs. Law. Dishevelled, downtrodden, always dreaming...

A journey through summer using the language of words.

'The older we get the less certain we become. That’s what I feel anyhow. That is why we sometimes feel the need to invent. To take away the doubt. But when I was your age, I was so confident, full of hope about where I was going and what I was going to do. Now the season fades somewhat, But this is not your fault my dear. Don’t feel disillusioned, doubts will come later.'Set in one of the last great villas on the French Riviera, in cosmopolitan London, and in the home of a landed G...

A collection of short syories all relating to love, life and death,

Hireth. Homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, or for a home which may have never been. An intense form of longing or nostalgia, wistfulness. The grief for the lost places of your past.Seen through the eyes of an innocent, shrewd young boy, Now I Let You Go recaptures an idyllic childhood through the memory of an older man. A lost time of love, endless summer adventures and picnics as Johnny spent his holidays on the Devonshire coast with his sister Annie and their dev...

Beautiful Mess features a kaleidoscope of scenarios and locations, together with a highly diverse cast of characters, from glamorous movie stars to burnt out strippers, somnambulists to drag queens, from a lonely bee-keeper, who said, "I don't meet many people, I'm very busy with the hives, when's my cloud of bees coming home?" to the child growing into an adult, on the day they learned to swim, because, "I’m all grown up now."Originally published by Massive. 25th Anniversary Editi...

Beautiful Deconstruction sees people come to terms with the past, make peace with inner demons and learn to say goodbye to loved ones. A story of love, of loss and time. In short, what it feels like to grow older. Beautiful Deconstruction charts the disintegration of the idyll between Douglas and Anthony as they leave their retreat in France and return full circle for an uncertain future in London.