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May 2025
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. It’s the first thing I wrote that was published in book form, in hardback in 1986 and in paperback in 1988. Over 10,000 writers submitted articles to a Travel Writing competition for three years in The Sunday Times. I think I came fourth out of 3,000 in 1986: apart from the three Prizewinners, mine was the only other article published in the Sunday magazine ahead of the hardback.
There were fifty articles in each of the annual editions and forty-nine in the “Best Of …” in 1988. Rereading it now, I would make a few changes, but it remains a piece of which I am inordinately proud.
Click here to read it on my ODDS & SODS page
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December 2024
An anthology of short (and very short) prose and poetry, just published, includes a (very) raunchy story of mine:
NOT GAY, ACTUALLY – which you can read here for free; go to my ODDS & SODS page
Click here to buy the paperback of FLASH DANCES from Amazon
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August 2024: Very pleased to sign two copies of LILLIAN in Brighton’s City Books
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“These are brilliantly funny novellas about 2 kids and their rise to fame in Hollywood.”
Nicola Kingswell, A LoveReading Ambassador
SOAP-STUD & BLUE-MOVIE GIRL
Two tales from Hollywood in the 1990s. An ‘alternative’ Hollywood, in which stars such as James Dean and Marilyn Monroe are still alive and working.
Soap-Stud: the rise to TV fame of a hunky lifeguard from San Diego.
Blue-Movie Girl: the rise to infamy of a mixed-race girl from Arizona who yearns to be an actress but settles for a career in porn.
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Paperback: Soap-Stud & Blue-Movie Girl
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My best review for SOAP-STUD & BLUE-MOVIE GIRL:
This is much more fun than even Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon books and those La-la land documentaries about Tinseltown that aired in the 1990s rolled up together. This doesn’t mean that it’s old-fashioned in style – I’d call it vintage, in that it is stylish, beautifully written and full of marvellous comedic moments, whilst harking back to the heyday of Jackie Collins and Harold Robbins – days when sex seemed more fun and less angst-ridden. Godolphin is an English writer, but with such an utterly convincing voice that one would think he was a longstanding Hollywood pro (forgive the innuendoes, not intended) preparing to spill the beans of what he has observed on set and in the trailers… He also gets what happens when stop at nothing ambition flowers in small-town America; there is also a wistfulness here that recalls Hopper’s bar scenes. Amazon reviewer from Italy
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LILLIAN AND THE ITALIANS (April 2021)
Looking for her “rolling stone” son in 1960s Italy, an English widow uncovers disturbing secrets and begins a dangerous romance with a charismatic Sicilian prince.
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One of my 30 reviews for LILLIAN AND THE ITALIANS:
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THE BEXHILL MISSILE CRISIS (2014)
October 1962. Kennedy and Krushchev take the world to the nuclear precipice. In a normally sedate town on the south coast of England four middle-class misfits are taken to a brink of their own by Pilgrim, a mysterious marauder on a motorbike.
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THE BEXHILL MISSILE CRISIS
(Currently only available as an e-book)
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THE DROPOUT (2012)
Looking for a woman to love, college dropout Paul makes some bad choices. And he has to learn how to handle gay overtures. In this new take on The Graduate, Paul’s ‘Mrs Robinson’ turns out to be his ‘Madame Bovary’.
Currently unavailable, but a new edition may be launched in the future
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SHAIKH-DOWN (2009)
An American air-hostess with Page-Three-Girl boobs and a gay British teacher help to kickstart an ‘Arab Spring’ on the Persian Gulf island of Belaj. Will it be the dawn of a new era of peace and love in the Muslim world – or maybe … Armageddon?
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E-book: SHAIKH-DOWN
(Currently only available as an e-book)
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THE AUTHOR tells you all you need to know (all I want you to know!) about my life as a writer – and the critics tell you what they think of me as a writer (samples below):