“still life, with gooseberry” — OUT NOW!
My eleventh literary darling is “live” to the world
I am very pleased and indeed proud to announce that my eleventh self-published book “still life, with gooseberry” is now “live” on Amazon.
Available in both hardback and paperback and free to read should you have a Kindle “Unlimited” membership, this 450+ page opus and “Best Of” for the year 2024 includes 28 spoiler free appraisals of films released and watched in this calendar year and these sandwich and book end a smattering of articles on sport (but fear not, like all of my writing, if film and sport aren’t your bag worry not, it’s still all about me) and a raft of rambling musings on the upside down nature of our world and the insidious intrusion AI is posing to all of our human lives (whilst many of you cheer it on). What larks eh?
Anyway, it’s my best book since my last book, and here’s the front cover in full (rather than the cropped version heading this article) and the rambling contents on the back cover. If you click on the Amazon link also below and then the “Sample” tab you can see the layout of the book, the opening few pages and the “Afterword” (should you so desire) and then I hope you’ll be intrigued enough to treat yourself to a quite wonderful book in support of an indie author.
Thanks.
"still life, with gooseberry" - link to Amazon
“Father, Son and Holy Goat. An eccentric and cantankerous old soul with a heart mainly of gold who lives in a time warp with the ghosts of my heroes Hunter S Thompson and Salvador Dali. Wearer of retro football shirts, this is the fifth in my “Rambling Musings” series of books and my eleventh publication to date”
“Following a lazy summer of reading books, eating too many old fashioned sweets and the naming of two swans Fred and Mary in the picture book toy town of Ironbridge beside the River Severn in central England, I thought it time to spread the good word concerning the lost art of reading a good book, getting lost in the written thoughts and ideas of others as the Sturm und Drang of life continues all around you.
There’s nothing quite like the turning of the pages on a good book you simply can’t put down is there? Perhaps like me you cheat a little by seeing exactly how many pages are left in a particular chapter? Is there time for just one more luxurious quarter of Wine Gums before you finish? Sections of a book you’ve read so many times before you can recite it word for word? Why has the author disappeared on such a strange tangent? Why does this particular author name swans? Does reading on a Kindle count? Do you smell the inside pages of older books, or is that just my fetish? Are there books you’ve started and stopped so many times, yet you refuse to give in or give up?
Do you see parallels to the real world in someone else’s words? Do you instantly turn off and stop reading if you find the author’s opinions vary greatly from your own? Do you have a dog-eared bookmark you simply can’t let go? Do you turn the pages down in the absence of a bookmark like a savage? Do you notate the book you’re reading? Do you read more than one book at a time?
Why does the author here name swans, and why is he asking so many questions?
Welcome to Volume Five of Rambling musings and other balderdash”
So there we have it, my eleventh self-published book and when you add-in my seven Kindle e-books, a grand total of eighteen all told and all waiting for your free reading delight (should have a Kindle “Unlimited” membership) or your purchasing finger poised to do the clicking.
I’d be honoured if you held my published words in your hands sometime.
Until next time.
Peace.
Thanks for reading. I hope this message in a bottle in The Matrix finds you well, prospering, and the right way up in an upside down world.