The Truants
The Truants is finished and printed. This is the title page with dedication and intriguing quotations. The Truants G. J. Martin This book is dedicated to Sue and Ursula Keen as a Truant or a Fugitive,But as a pilgrim resolute, I took,Even with the chance equipment of that hour,The road that pointed toward the chosen […]
Of Love and Gravity
Even though I have been silent, I have been busy. In terms of brand new work I am about half way through a novel called The Truants. This is a novel based on travels in the Baltic region of the old East Germany, much more evocatively named Pomerania. The centrepiece of the piece is the […]
News of Readings and articles.
February 18th read a short piece from ‘Eagles without a Cliff’ at the Barley Mow, Bonsall as part of Colette’s literary evening led by Mark Gwynne Jones. February 4th Amanda Penman interviewed me for an article in Artsbeat magazine. January 25th 2016. I visited Nottingham High School and read extracts from ‘Eagles without a Cliff’ […]
Mentoring
I have been silent but far from idle these past months. The task of interweaving the three new narratives [each one almost as long as the original host] has been teasing and difficult. By the end of April, I began sending this new draft to friends for feedback and copy-editing. Most responses were splendid–full of […]