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Abla

I only went out for wine...

About Me

Following the publication of my semi-autobiographical debut novel 'Is it 'cos I is Brown?' (the critics called it: 'a moving account of growing up in the London suburbs in Thatcher's Britain') when I was just 22, I went into hiding for several years, dividing my time between my Paris apartment and various squats in south London, trying to escape the intrusions of the publishing and media-celebrity machine.Now in my mid 30s, with all that behind me, I lead a life of boring normality, working for da government and binge drinking (although not simultaneously). Perhaps that contains the genesis of another book - if it did n't take me all day to recover from the inevitable hangover (must drink more water before going to bed).

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My Interests

The arts, good TV (not much of it around), yoga and running, music and other stuff...politics and things. More travel would be good.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone would be a good start.

Music:

Like anything with a hook - mainly dance music in all it various permutations, jazz, 'chill out', electronica; classical. Current listens include: Amy Winehouse; Air; Plan B; Goldfrapp; Feist; Cut Copy; Tatu; Billie Holiday; Coltrane; Lily Allen; LCD Soundsystem; Slovo; Bowie; old Groove Armada; Chemical Brothers; the Knife; Sinatra; Lemon Jelly; Jay Z; Regina Spektor; Modest Mouse; Just Jack; Soweto Kinch, to name but a few.

Movies:

Usually art house, the occasional Hollywood release and the better Brit flicks. Favourite film of all time is still 'Sex, Lies and Videotape.' Favourite directors include: Coen Brothers, Steven Soderburgh, Kristof Kieslowski, Guillermo Del Toro, Francois Truffaut, Pedro Almodovar, Shane Meadows.

Television:

After 'Six Feet Under,' TV died. Have now rediscovered 'ER.'

Books:

Anything by Alan Hollinghurst; Ian McEwan (despite turning into apologist for Blair and the neo-cons); Alan Warner; Michel Houlbecq; DBC Pierre; Salman Rushdie; Louise Welch; A L Kennedy; Zoe Heller; Ali Smith; Alice Munroe; Dostoevsky; Elliot; Austen; the Brontes; Orwell; EM Forster; Graham Greene; and American writer Tom Bissel's short story collection 'God Lives in St Petersburg.'

Heroes:

Anyone fighting back.