Alphabetically not far from Proust

Painting of Jeff by South African artist Arlene Amaler-Raviv. 1994. Oil on paper.  

Jeff is introduced as an author who ‘brings a unique international accent to his writing’ and ‘has developed a unique voice that cannot be categorized.'

From the floor to the bar to the walls to the cushions to the ceiling, it's all things moony

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Tell me THREE things about your latest book

Excerpts from three Amazon reviewers’ comments on my novel:

‘the author clearly has a love for the sound and rhythm of words; he is the most magnificent master of alluring alliteration’

‘charming and idiosyncratic, with a joyful soul’

‘a wonderfully light touch to the prose and a totally original storyline’ 

Tell me about TWO of the char…

Scratchy, muddy audio of Jeff playing drums on his band’s cover of this Jefferson Airplane song in 1968.

Tour 1 was in the UK. This tour was in the US.

Perhaps the closest fictional town to my novel’s Goodmews is Smallville, home of Superboy/Superman. (This is the Smallville of the 40’s and 50’s Superman comics, not as depicted in later TV programmes.) Smallville, like Goodmews, was an idyllic, small, isolated American town, with friendly residents, locally owned businesses and one newspaper.

Its sister bookshop is down the hill in Crouch End.

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Rough sketch for map of Goodmews to come.

The audience behaving