In The Beginning

I've been asked several times to explain how I came to write novels at such an 'advanced age'. Of course I dom't like even to acknowledge that my age is advanced or that it relates in any way to the product of my writing, but in these, our times, such things have an irrational importance they may not have had in times gone by. So anyway I decided to write a short account, and am going to publish it here on my blog in three parts; one each day ...


Bryan Islip: On writing Going with Gabriel

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