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Colin Browne

Goodreads Author

Born

in Northampton, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.colinjbrowne.com

Twitter

colinjbrowne

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Humor, Romance

Influences

Ernest Hemingway, Joan Didion, Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Joseph Helle ...more

Member Since

January 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/colinjbrowne

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I don't know where I'm from, but my best guess is that I'm South African though that's really a twist-of-fate rather than a birthright. Born in England, I moved to Belgium when I was two, South Africa when I was 12, Dubai when I was 25, back to South Africa when I was 31, London when I was 40 and these days I call Johannesburg home.

I've done some fun stuff. I helped start a successful business in South Africa which I still part-own and I spent a lot of years before that writing articles for magazines around the world.

My first attempt at a novel happened in 1995. It was laughable. My second happened once I'd got over myself, in 1999. Not a lot better. But since then I've made writing a big part of my life, putting my work out into the world ...more

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Q&A now open until April 30

Ladies and gentlemen and fellow Bookworms of the Realm. I have a cup of tea and a small pile of digestive biscuits (plain, not chocolate ... I am not that much of an extravagant fool ... and I am ready to take your questions about life, The Baggage Handler and everything in a Q&A, here: http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/6.... Add categories if you want to, and I'll be glad to answer your questio Read more of this blog post »

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Published on April 16, 2012 14:14 • Tags: the-baggage-handler

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Quotes by Colin Browne (?)

“That’s different. The French know that the English are superior to them and they’re appropriate about it. The Eastern Europeans on the other hand have no sense of place. All that communism has them thinking that everyone really is of the same class and we are absolutely not. But they don’t know that.”
― Colin Browne, The Baggage Handler

tags: eastern-europe, english, french, xenophobia

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