About the author
Cold War Baby. Expunged from West Berlin to Wollongong, Australia. Indifferent at school. Worked in various semi skilled labouring jobs at the local steelworks. Off to Asia. Reversing the hippy trail from Calcutta via Kathmandu back to West Berlin. Bored as usual. Back to Wollongong. Obtained a degree there, BA [Sociology Major] & instantly unemployable. Left for Sydney just when New Wave Music was taking off with bands like: Birthday Party [Nick Cave], Laughing Clowns, Siousxsie & the Banshees, Talking Heads, Cure, Cabaret Voltaire, Chrome, Bauhaus, Virgin Prunes, Machinations, XL Capris etc. Off to the country which is definitely not me. Back to Sydney. Drove buses until my back [and head] went. Divorced. Finished first novel - here as 'Artifice'. Drank with jazz members from 'The Festers' [as in Uncle Fester] and back to the country [women!], ending up at Newcastle. Where I finished the second novel, VQC. Paint a little, play [mangle] the piano. Into Goth bands such as Fockewolf, Switchblade Symphony, Otto's Daughter, Collide and others such as Curve plus the great blasts from the past eg King Crimson, Traffic, Amon Duul II, Faust, Nina Hagen et.al. Bookworm. History & Current Affairs plus Eastern European surrealist literature. The world is an amazing place.