Paul Burgin

• Age: 34
• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Libra
• Zodiac Year: Rabbit
• Occupation: Writer
• Location: Baldock : Hertfordshire : United Kingdom

About Me

I tend to write freelance articles and help edit a magazine+newsletter called 'IMPACT' on a volunteer basis. In my day-to-day life I am a supervisor at a bookshop near Cambridge. I am also Press Officer for the North East Herts CLP and once worked for Geraint Davies, when he was MP for Croydon Central, as well as having worked as a Campaign Intern for the Hemel Hempstead Labour Party. I have written (and am editing) an unpublished novel, and am currently writing a novel about politics and polar exploration (contradictary I know).I am a member of the Christian Socialist Movement and stood several times for District Council in Baldock Town Ward and in Baldock East Ward (North Herts). I also helped run a coffee shop for several years.

Paper or briefs?

Hmm! Papers.Briefs might not give you the full info

Interests

• My faith
• reading
• writing (two novels
• one completed
• yet to be published)
• literature
• politics
• walking
• chess
• swimming
• ski-ing (If I can afford to take it up again!)

Favorite Movies

• The Lord of the Rings trilogy
• Doctor Strangelove
• Charade
• Being There
• The Pink Panther
• the James Bond movies
• Gandhi
• Forrest Gump
• The Passion of the Christ
• A Man of all Seasons
• The Untouchables
• Amelie
• A Knights Tale
• Apollo 13
• Enigma
• Shakespeare in Love
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
• Monty Python's Life of Brian
• Chicken Run
• 2001: A Space Odyseey
• Evil Under the Sun
• The Hunt For Red October
• The Blues Brothers
• Super Size Me

Favorite Music

• U2
• The Beatles
• Radiohead
• Nick Drake
• Johnny Cash
• Keane
• David Bowie
• The Rolling Stones
• Queen
• The Darkness
• Franz Ferdinand
• The White Stripes
• 'Cavatina' (as performed by John Williams)
• Classical: Faure
• Holst
• Mozart (esp 21st piano concerto)
• Elgar (esp Nimrod)
• Beethoven
• John Barry.

Favorite Books

• The Bible
• The Complete Works of Shakespeare
• The Space Trilogy - C.S. Lewis
• The Chronicles of Narnia- C.S. Lewis
• Mere Christianity- C.S. Lewis
• The Rotters Club - Jonathan Coe
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
• Nicholas and Alexandra- Robert K.Massie
• Illustrissimi - Pope John Paul I
• Taken On Trust- Terry Waite
• The Moon's a Balloon- David Niven
• Friends and Rivals (Crosland
• Healey
• and Jenkins)- Giles Radice
• Diaries- Tony Benn
• An Accidental MP- Martin Bell
• The Pythons Autobiography- The Pythons
• Shackleton- Roland Huntford

My Blogs	Team Members
Mars Hill
The Baldock Blog