Current Writing
‘Telling Silences’ (A novella - out in eBook format in April 2012)
We not only eaves-drop in the Clinical Psychologist’s consulting room, but ‘listen-in’ to the innermost thoughts of the therapist. Sixteen and a half year old Annie has attempted suicide. We need to know why. But we also need to know why the therapist is taking such an apparently unhealthy interest in her. Annie’s mother, Kim, is a dizzy, New-Age-Butterfly-Brained person who has little perception of the real world. She is frequently absent and leaves Annie and her older brother Nick to fend for themselves.
Meanwhile, in ‘hearing’ the innermost thoughts of psychologist Mark Forrester, we often know more about him than even his personal supervising therapist, Olivia. But in revealing his thoughts to us, does he allow all his feelings to surface? Or will we find that he reasons too little with his head and too well with his heart?
The story gathers pace rapidly, then, in the final page explodes with a revelation that leaves the imagination of the reader busy to discover what happens after the story has ended … (Note: This story is so scened and set that it could be played as a theatre piece/radio play)
‘Reaching Out – Reaching In’ is currently out of print, but will appear in eBook format in late 2012.
Non-Fiction
‘Trumpet Style in Jazz’ (eBook format/late 2012)Face to face transcribed interviews from the 70’s and 80’s between the author and some of the greatest jazz players of the 20th century: From Jimmy McPartland - who on the death of Bix Beiderbecke in 1931, replaced him in the famous ‘Wolverine Orchestra’, to Wild Bill Davison, Billy Butterfield, Ruby Braff, Thad Jones, Howard McGhee, Clark Terry, Harry ‘Sweets’ Edison (of Sinatra/Nelson Riddle fame) and Dizzy Gillespie. (Profits from this book will be donated to the Musicians Benevolent Fund UK)