The Author
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Alexandria, Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | I was born in Chesterfield, England and have lived in Washington, DC since 1992. Raised on fish-fingers, baked beans and Cadbury Creme Eggs I decorate homes for people much wealthier than me and write novels in my free time. I have kept a daily journal since 1977 without missing a single day; such is my obsessive nature. |
| Interests | Kitchen sink drama, British television, fashion, traditional folk music, paganism, interior design, cinema, restaurants, boutique hotels, things that smell nice, fiction, British history, schoolboy humour, satire, holidays |
| Favorite Movies | A Taste of Honey, Saturday Night & Sunday Morning, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Room at the Top, Darling, A Kind of Loving, The Whisperers, The L-Shaped Room, Whistle Down the Wind, Georgy Girl, The Killing of Sister George, Entertaining Mr.Sloane, Spring & Port Wine, Up the Junction, The Anniversary, That'll Be the Day, The Family Way, Distant Voices Still Lives, Stevie, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Devils, The Boys in the Band, The Entertainer, Car Trouble, Another Country, The Exorcist, Closer |
| Favorite Music | Kate Bush, Eddi Reader, George Michael, Glen Hansard, K.D Lang, Kylie, Rickie Lee Jones, Sarah Brightman, Air Liquide, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Happy Rhodes, Jocelyn Pook, Madonna, William Orbit, Zero 7, Robbie Williams, Erik Satie, Sting, Julian Bream, Patsy Cline, Amber, Cher, Britney, Jewel, Joni Mitchell, Maddy Prior, Rufus Wainright, David Gray, Dido, Duncan Sheik, Jonatha Brooke, June Tabor, Kate Rusby, Loreena McKennitt, Melanie, Nick Drake, Seth Lakeman, Simon & Garfunkel, John Boswell, W.G Snuffy Walden, Astrud Gilberto, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Blossom Dearie, Chet Baker, Diana Krall, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Horace Silver, Nat King Cole, Nina Simone, Omara Portuondo, Sade, Roxy Music, ABC, Alanis Morissette, Dusty Springfield, Maroon 5, Sister Hazel, Queen, Yoav, Azam Ali, Lisa Gerrard, The Mamas & the Papas, Petula Clark, Abba, Carly Simon, Sweet, Adam & the Ants, Bananarama, Rick Astley, Thompson Twins, Yazoo |
| Favorite Books | Rich Deceiver by Gillian White, Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier, Light Years by Maggie Gee, Like People in History by Felice Picano, Limestone & Clay by Lesley Glaister, Final Demand by Deborah Moggach, Rough Music by Patrick Gale, A Five Year Sentence by Bernice Reubens, The Life & Loves of a She-Devil by Faye Weldon |