![]() When she died of cancer, he found himself alone, inconsolable in his grief. Lewis had been married to his wife for four blissful years. No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. ‘Here, sorrow and despair, the tiredness and numbness and petulance and nightmarishness of grief, all have their full, uncontrolled, experienced force … radical openness … Brilliant.’ Francis Spufford ![]() Death is no barrier to that.’ Hilary Mantel It allows one bewildered mind to reach out to another. ![]() It offers an interrogation of experience and a glimmer of hardwon hope. ‘Testimony from a sensitive and eloquent witness ‘The Human Condition’. ‘A source of great consolation … Lewis deploys his genius for vivid imagery … It is a relief for the reader to find that he or she is not alone in the intense loneliness or feelings of anguish that bereavement brings.’ Henry Marsh, The Times ‘Raw and modern … This unsentimental, even bracing, account of one man’s dialogue with despair becomes both compelling and consoling … A contemporary classic.’ Observer ![]() ‘An intimate, anguished account of a man grappling with the mysteries of faith and love … Elegant and raw … A powerful record of thought and emotion experienced in real time.’ Guardian The perennial classic: this intimate journal chronicling the Narnia author’s experience of grief after his wife’s death has consoled readers for half a century with its ‘ sensitive and eloquent’ magic (Hilary Mantel) ![]()
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![]() Dalgliesh's godfather implores him to reinvestigate a notorious murder that might ease the godfather's mind about an inheritance, but which will reveal a truth that even the supremely upstanding Adam Dalgliesh will keep to himself. ![]() A best-selling crime novelist describes the crime she herself was involved in fifty years earlier. ![]() A "pedantic, respectable, censorious" clerk's secret taste for pornography is only the first reason he finds for not coming forward as a witness to a murder. Dalgliesh is drawn into a case that is "pure Agatha Christie.". ![]() Four previously uncollected stories from one of the great mystery writers of our time-swift, cunning murder mysteries (two of which feature the young Adam Dalgliesh) that together, to borrow the author's own word, add up to a delightful "entertainment." ![]() ![]() Six published novellas and novels later, my life is a fun quandary of too many stories hindered by slow typing skills. Traveling also offered me new backdrops and locations for my stories. ![]() While traveling to interview bands, writing fiction percolated in the background. Running B-Side, an indie music magazine, helped develop my dialogue and description skills. Yes, I read these books in my bedroom.Īs the years progressed and I discovered my sexual path, I still wrote m/m romance, although the stories progressed from lurking in notebooks to hiding on the computer. Reading Gordon Merrick, John Rechy and Larry Kramer helped me fill in informational gaps. Writing about men inserting tab A into slot B didn’t seem the norm for a female teenager. My writing remained a secret lest my friends thought me a freak. ![]() Thirty years ago, I started writing m/m romance. ![]() |