I’ve finished the first part of Harris in Exile. I’ve just reviewed it, and made a few changes to get rid of the most obvious bad writing, and so forth. But I’m reasonably happy with it. I started with a strong short-story idea, that I thought could make a good novel beginning: Karl Marx and …
My anti-hero Frank Harris has gone to the Grenadier, a London pub that used to be the officers’ mess for the Regimental Guards, and is now the off-duty hangout for many Grenadier Guards. It’s July in 1880, but then as now you’re likely to find moderately famous people: Madonna, for example today, but Bertie, Prince …
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I’m currently writing “Harris in Exile”. It’s set in London in 1880, with my anti-hero Frank Harris just arrived in Britain and living amongst the anarchists, socialists and democrats who took shelter in London in the late nineteenth century. As the real Frank Harris did. The story begins with Charles Malato, an anarchist leader of …
T I took this pic one evening in the Andaman Islands. I love the colours, and the child’s footprints running along golden sand. I see this picture as kind of symbolising the way I tell stories. But I don’t feel like explaining that just now, coz I’d have to get all sententious and I’m not …