This page

has some details of work in progress. My available time at present is mostly accounted for by:

• My Lecture Programme
• Grave Web Services

     and
• The Powys Society

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Current Projects

Back in 1999, while enjoying a month's Fellowship at Hawthornden Castle, I drafted a 150,000 word novel, the story of a love-affair that goes disastrously wrong. I completed a third draft in November 1999 but the novel needs reworking with a strong and positive female character to set against the current central figure, a woman with a severe personality disorder who brings death and destruction to anyone with whom she becomes emotionally involved.

Back in the early nineties, I also drafted the 130,000 word autobiography of a celebrity of the late 1960s and early 1970s. A classic five-act tragedy, which also gives a profound insight into the alternative culture of that era, is unlikely to see the light of day for many years, since although many of the protagonists are now dead, it involves many famous and influential people still living.

More recently I have also drafted the first three chapters of Counselling Murder, a detective thriller set both in Bristol and in the murky world of counselling courses.

I have also spent some time on a synopsis for a new biography of H.G.Wells, a genius whose life deserves to be rescued from the hands of the extreme feminists and their sympathisers.

I would also be interested in writing a biography of the poet John Masefield an excellent human being some of whose longer poems, such as Dauber have been severely neglected. A decent life of Philip Larkin would also be worthwhile.

Any Publisher interested in looking at work-in-progress should contact the literary agent Rachel Calder, who can be reached at: