Monday, 5 August 2019

My forthcoming book: This Spinning World (cover design and contents list)


It should be published and available in the middle of September. 

The ISBN number will be:

ISBN 978-1-912788-02-6 (or, in machine-readable form: 9781912788026).

When published, it can be ordered from 

Colenso Books, 68 Palatine Road, London N16 8ST, UK 

or by email:

colensobooks@gmail.com

It will also be available on Amazon.


Yes, that's me behind the Arriflex 16mm camera, Nairobi, Kenya 1976/1977.


Titles of stories (Contents - now 43 stories):

Introduction (between fact and fiction)
January
Rock ‘n’ Roll Down Under
Remembrance Sunday
Buck Burrows
The ghosts of Max Gate
From a Corfu Diary
Fifty years ago
In search of silence
Retirement and revenge
Stacheldraht or European Unions
Beside the seaside
A broken ankle
The incoming tide
The magistrates’ court
Terror alert
Operation Hercules
Maumbury Rings
Margarita’s Brass Beds
The martyr of the people
Culture shock
Miroslav’s dream
The Gap
The returner
Yemmerrawanne and John Henry
Decolonise your mind
The other side of the wall
The battle of the two clarinets
The winter before the Summer of Love
Not so sunny Goodge Street
The Dropout
Beneath the gibbet
A librarian in Addis Ababa
Going down slow (with a clear conscience)
North and south
The last three slices
The school ski trip
The landscape painter
Bears
Reward!
Exiles’ Island
Beyond the mountains
The film director manqué
The Hero and the Martyr


Colenso Books
68 palatine road, london n16 8st                    colensobooks@gmail.com

SOON available from Colenso Books
either directly or through www.amazon.co.uk


email for postage and packing rates which vary according to destination


If you're in Corfu Town in September, and plan to drop in at the

Corfu Literary Festival,

please note the following session on Day 6, Saturday 28th September


Short Stories – Collections and Assemblages

Nicholas Hogg and Jim Potts in Conversation 

Municipal Gallery, Palace of St Michael and St George, 7pm session (two events, start time)

See more details and the full programme of festival events:

https://corfublues.blogspot.com/2019/08/corfu-literary-festival-23rd-to-30th.html


A book launch is also being planned at PLOUS Bookshop on Monday 30th September.









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