What causes America's mainstream media to fear and try to destroy a group of artists and their work? What happens when such a creative movement grows in strength and threatens media's bottom line? Why would extremists find it necessary to take acti
Determined to confront the hazy memories of his troubled youth, Oliver Matthews, a retired detective and confirmed bachelor, returns to the picturesque town of Henley-on-Thames for the first time in years.
"In life you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant..."
Background
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I was born in the Summer of 1969 in Dagenham, just on the border of East London. School was largely unproductive so my early adult years were spent putting up stalls at Romford Market, working in a record shop, gardening and road sweeping.
After resigning from an insurance company to play in a band, I found myself unemployed for two years in the early nineties. It was during this time, at the age of 22, that I wrote my first novel - A Cleansing of Souls.
I wrote my second novel, Tollesbury Time Forever, between 2008 and 2011. This would become the first book of the FRUGALITY Trilogy - the second being The Bird That Nobody Sees, which was published in July 2012. The final part of the trilogy - I Woke Up This Morning - was released in late April 2013.
In terms of writing, my heroes are Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.
In between writing novels, I have been married twice and I have three children. I have worked as a mental health nurse since 1997.
Birth Place
Dagenham, England
Accomplishments
Tollesbury Time Forever - winner of the IBB Book of the Year 2012