The author at 20 – college-kid! Around the same age as Paul Barrett, the hero (aniti-hero) of my novel The Dropout
The Author
Originally earmarked for the Methodist Mission Field, I soon discovered that ‘the missionary position’ didn’t suit me. A post-university career in telecommunications took me to the Middle East where I moonlighted as a journalist and socialized heavily with the ‘natives’ and with stewardesses from one of the local airlines, which came in handy when I started writing Shaikh-Down.
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Albufeira, Portugal, 2015
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I now live a few miles outside Brighton in southeast England with my partner and our rescue-centre lurcher called Milly.
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Reading from THE BEXHILL MISSILE CRISIS at Peckham Library, a Paradise Press event, March 2015
The Critics
What the critics said about THE DROPOUT
David Gee’s tongue-in-cheek, if dark, social and sexual satire (a sort of cross between David Lodge and Tom Sharpe) leads us through a topsy-turvy world of sexual shenanigans and unconventional relationships conducted behind the outwardly respectable façade of small town life, a façade which the return of the prodigal son, Paul, cracks wide open, to reveal the unsavoury secrets lurking behind it.
This is a highly-absorbing, entertaining and ultimately satisfying read, and one which I would unhesitatingly recommend.
Tim Bennett-Gordon in Polari Magazine
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What the critics said about SHAIKH-DOWN
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“A delicious, laugh-out-loud, randy romp through the myopic and bawdy world of Gulf expatriate life, set against the chilling winds of change.”
Jack Scott, author of PERKING THE PANSIES
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