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- Apr 13, 2014
- Real Name
- eric potter
- About Me
- I am a former journalist, having worked for the Daily Mirror, the Mail on Sunday, the Press Association and The Sporting Life. I have also been employed as a builder's labourer, a PR executive and a ship's writer in the Merchant Navy.
I am the author of three books: "Dear Popsy: Collected Postcards of a Private Schoolboy to his Father"; "Jimmy, Mrs Fisher and Me"; and "A Ruined Boy".
"Dear Popsy" tells of the decadent goings-on at St Cloud's, an exclusive public school where the boys prefer rouge to rugger and bondage to botany. This book, illustrated by Paul Cox, was first published by Andre Deutsch and later by Penguin. A third, revised edition made its appearance late last year. Click on cover image for full synopsis.
"Jimmy, Mrs Fisher and Me" is narrated by Simon Sixsmith, a street-smart teenager, who, in order to fulfil his stricken part-Nigerian half-brother's dream of visiting the Grand Canyon, sells his body - to men and women both - on London's meat rack. Click on cover image for full synopsis.
"A Ruined Boy" is set against a backdrop of Hollywood and the Mafia in the fifties and centres on Honey and Sonny Bunn, a mother and son with a pathological hatred of each other. Honey is a coarse, bloated, sexually rapacious nightclub entertainer (she impersonates movie stars - male ones: Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, George Raft, etc), and Sonny a manipulative young psychopath, dazzlingly beautiful, camp and corrupt. This is a bawdy, blackly comic tale of greed, lust, murder and revenge. Click on cover image for full synopsis. - Location
- Worthing, West Sussex, England
- Favorite Authors
- Henri Alain-Fournier, Honoré de Balzac, Anita Brookner, Raymond Chandler, Anton Chekhov, Colette, Ivy Compton-Burnett, E. L. Doctorow, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ronald Firbank, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Vincent van Gogh, Jack Kerouac, Elmore Leonard, George Orwell, Samuel Pepys, Kurt Vonnegut, Evelyn Waugh, P. G. Wodehouse
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