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KIRKUS REVIEW from New York/ July 2024 In Newton’s novel, a London gambler dedicates his life to avoiding the regular nine-to-five grind. West London’s Mayfair club and casino is known for offering its clientele a ready and reliable source of culinary delights. Their food plays an integral role in bon vivant Jonathon Burne-Jones’ freewheeling but […]
“Please can you turn the music down a bit – thankyou”. Because it was the worst kind of Christmas schmaltz, he ever heard. “Yes, I’ll have the turkey special, of course”, as the waitress hovers above him. This seemed to please her, on a festive evening, in her roadside diner. It was festooned with decorative […]
Two ole duffers landed at a forgotten church-yard; to set-up tea things upon a big level tombstone — out touring for Sunday afternoon when late flowers still bloomed, grass grew everywhere and leaves above seen as green and full… “Bring out the stove, the pan and two cups; it’s all there in the back-seats, from […]
It started out as a fine day on the coast of a small town in California: summoned to appear by late morning, to explain myself, before a local Appeal Board for the army draft. I went cleaned-up and shaved; but dressed informally trying to appear authentic but not proud, honest yet not afraid – “I’m […]
Rudi was under the full canopy of a big park tree for asummer’s afternoon, joined by another Yankee in KensingtonGardens. It was West London on a weekday, with a select crowd settingacross the lawns; not part of the workforce, not today. Both men were keen to talk about the Vietnam conflict: theirmilitary units, the battle […]
After rereading some Charles Bukowski, the ugly bard from the streets of Los Angeles (1920-94) and his famous quotes; I wanted to make something of a statement, myself, about poetry/ writing/ publishing… and all the rest of it. I prefer to sit at my coffee-time dreaming of somewhere else, to be someone else – because […]
CABIN BOY – One of the best Short Fiction Stories by Stuart Newton I believe we all know how ‘seafarers’ are different from ordinary folk. Their strong love of sea-an-ships can be very engaging; maybe alarming for some landlubbers. Yet they once made-up a large prominent group in Britain, from long ago — fierce, proud […]
