"when you see anything of mine that you don’t like remember that I’m sincere in doing it and that I’m working toward something." - Ernest Hemingway A selection of recent posts from my Substack site. "Writing until the light goes out" "Writing until the light goes out" Buy discounted books direct from the printer
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“Jealousy”
Weird. Alain Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy is seriously weird. Structurally so. It's as if he has taken a 3 or 4 page short story, photocopied it multiple times, then cut the pages up between paragraphs before throwing them up in the air and then entering them into the 'narrative' however they fell. Consequently there is a great … Continue reading “Jealousy”
Trailers for my latest work
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About my 2025 novel – 2
“To the Lighthouse”
The first time I read Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was around forty-six years ago. I have just re-read it. Not only that, but I was reading from the self same book I purchased in 1980! Boy, are the pages yellowed and dry! I had forgotten just how wonderful the novel was. It seemed to … Continue reading “To the Lighthouse”
About my 2025 novel – 1
“The Rest of Our Lives”
For me, Ben Markovits' The Rest of Our Lives really only got going once the protagonist was started on his road trip. Everything that came before seemed slightly confusing, as if I was being given too much information, too much back story. My conclusion was to wonder whether the book actually started in the wrong … Continue reading “The Rest of Our Lives”
Recent Substack highlights
"when you see anything of mine that you don’t like remember that I’m sincere in doing it and that I’m working toward something." - Ernest Hemingway A selection of recent posts from my Substack site. "Writing until the light goes out" "Writing until the light goes out" Buy discounted books direct from the printer
“Sympathy Tower Tokyo”
Bizarre. And confusing. Sympathy Tower Tokyo reads like a treatise on language and a personal philosophy shoehorned into a piece of fiction; the only issue - from my perspective at least - is that the narrative / story isn't strong enough to do the heavy lifting. In that sense it failed to work as theory, … Continue reading “Sympathy Tower Tokyo”
“Her Body & Other Parties”
I rarely agree with blurb on the front cover of books - but in the case of Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body & Other Parties I can only concur: "brilliantly inventive". This is a raw roller-coaster of a read which takes no prisoners. It shies away from nothing; indeed, Machado deliberately goes deep into her … Continue reading “Her Body & Other Parties”
Ian Gouge - Writer 
