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The 200th anniversary of the S&D railway is happening in 2025 so the build-up has begun.
Set in Regency England 1810-1825, No. 1 draws on the real and the imagined from the North East of England present at the birth of the railways, starting on 18th September 1810 and finishing there... more & reviews>
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A fantastic time-travelling adventure story that takes the reader back to the opening of the Stockton to Darlington railway on 27th September 1825 as seen through the eyes of Lewis Noble... more>
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They will tell you this book has to be categorized under memoir and they may be right but for me it's a working journal that straddles the end of the 20th century and shows how to create something... more>
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All this is mine (formerly A Teesside Voice) is set in London in 1994 and is a strident commentary on the perils of unbridled Thatcherism. Money is designed to buy things but to Rob Barlow, a... more>
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The Summer of '89 charts a slice of the life of itinerant northerner John following his return to the UK after a self-imposed exile working on an Israel farm after quitting London, his home for.. more>
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Every June, July or August from 1968-1979, the Nowsty family peered suspiciously from the windows of their terraced house in Darlington as if the weather was about to play yet another rotten trick. Summer holidays were on their way but would the weather do the decent thing? more>
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Follow the modern adventures of Jethro Anson Nowsty, 58, throughout 2021 and into 2022, an English ex-pat living and working in France. It was a year of change for our world and a year of change for our reluctant hero. more>
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In 2006, when I arrived in France from Britain, determined to stay, it really was a different geopolitical landscape - not that it made much difference to me – I was too busy trying to make a living to give much of a damn about the global picture... more>
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This is a book for those who smoke and want to stop and for those who’ve stopped but need reassurance. I’m the latter. I started and stopped four times and this final time was the last... more>
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Fragments is a collection of thirteen short stories that somehow miraculously survived the long journey I took them on, some from as far back as 1989, two from 1997 and the others from 1999. more>
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In June 2014 one of my closest friends died of acute liver failure brought on by alcoholism and cocaine abuse. He was 52. He and I were raised in a world where knowledge of certain drugs, legal and illegal, was very limited. more>
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This is a collection of my 96 poems composed between 1982 to 2020. At the start I was living at home with my parents and my main influences were classical poetry and Nature but as I moved on the subjects became more political and radical to reflect a growing self-awareness. . . more>
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A wonderful and detailed diary of what it was like to be young and innocent in a small northern English town in the early 1980's and in a world which was just a little less complicated than today. more>
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Being the uneventful and rather plain story of the childhood and youth of one Jethro Anson Nowsty, an ordinary boy from an ordinary working class family in an ordinary town in north east England, from his first tentative steps into the adult world in the summer of 1979 ... more>
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Plunge head-first into the mad adventures of Jethro Anson Nowsty, our ordinary and modest English hero, an innocent abroad, doing daily battle with the (often) frustrating but (equally) fascinating workings of modern France from 2016 up to the present date... more>
Loosely based on 'Down and out in Paris and London' by George Orwell, part one of 'Voyager' takes us back to the late 1980's when young, naive, gullible, idealistic, uneducated, secret palindromist Johnny Regayov quits his northern home town and heads south for London, desperate for a life of fun and Hedonism. more>
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Continuing the adventures of Jethro Anson Nowsty, a not-so-innocent Englishman abroad in France, entering a dark period for humanity as the first global pandemic for a century bursts upon his world. more> 
Loosely based on 'Down and out in Paris and London' by George Orwell, part two of 'Voyager' takes us back to the first decade of the new century when not-so-young, not-so-naive, far less gullible and realistic pragmatist . . . more>
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‘Imagination links with memory’ is a quote attributed to the Impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and one which he passed on as advice to many apprentice artists including Paul Gauguin. more>
A re-cap of the last twelve months (give or take a few weeks) covering all that went on in and around it as seen through my eyes. A year full of great independence and artistic expression, of travel backwards and forwards between France and England. more>
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It’s peculiar to know that solid objects and people can no longer be seen or touched apart from through photographs, films or memories. They have become ghosts. more>
The ghost of French painter Paul Gauguin finds temporary sanctuary in the imagination of obscure British writer Antony J Stowers... more>
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