Great Writers - Phil
Born in Cambridgeshire in 1949, Phil Clarke left school ‘essentially’ at 14, was a factory electrician for 3-years, a scientific instrument technician for 6-years, then a full-time student for 4-years. After an incongruous year as a maths teacher, he spent a decade in the broadcast industry as a technician/engineer then operator before heading out around the USA (driving 16,000+ miles) then Australia and New Zealand for the best part of a year – since when he’s ended up in Hastings UK where he was briefly a BT telephone operator. More recently he’s driven around the EU a few times in a beaten-up old Jag, hostelling and camping, and otherwise cycles, walks (with the occasional sprint), sea-swims and generally idles about. In spare moments all through this, he’s been dipping into all kinds of books. Some of these have inspired the making of notes for reflecting on and as reminders of the writers and works that seemed most impressive.
GENRE: Literature
Blurb:
If you read a book about a journey around Europe, say, you’ll get the author’s mostly unique experiences of countries, districts and towns, the flora, the cuisine and so on. The route taken will also be individual and unique. Such a book won’t be comprehensive or focused on one country or aspect, as an academic study might, but will give an individual general impression. In that way, this book could be regarded as a kind of travel book around my own unique experience of writers and books.
