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Phyl

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About Me

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My name is Phyl Wright and this is my first novel which is available to order from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com and some independent bookstores. It is published by Kennedy & Boyd. If anyone would like a signed copy with a personal message, please contact me direct.I've always been intrigued by the idea of reinvention - how people reinvent themselves, change their lives, sometimes through choice, sometimes through circumstance. Can people start a whole new life at any age? This is what I've tried to write about in by book, NOBODY I KNOW.The sequel to Nobody I Know, called SOMEBODY MAYBE will be out published this year sometime. This novel deals with the consequences of reinvention for some of the characters from the first book. What do you do when your life has changed and your attitudes with it? Like the previous book, it has some romance (because everybody needs a bit of that in their lives), and a mystery running alongside the central theme.Nobody I Know has been rated five stars by readers on Amazon. A typical review:-"I absolutely loved this book from beginning to end. Very well written there was not one part of it I disliked. I know lots of other people who have also purchased and love the novel and the best thing about that was having someone to share it with because it is that kind of story. I found myself talking about the characters as though I personally knew them - absolutely fantastic. I felt I could relate to several episodes throughout and the whole storyline had me wondering what was going to happen next."Book cover below:-

I have three passions in life (apart from my family and friends) and these are Literature, Music and Art. Literature has always seemed to me to the gateway to other worlds and it remains my first love. Music and Art are favourite indulgences which feed the soul and illuminate the days.


For any Literature, Music or Art lovers out there, I'm a kindred spirit. Others who are looking for networking or friendship, please feel free to contact me.
"Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly"
- Langston Hughes

My Interests

Writing, Reading, Music, Cinema, Art, Architecture, Shopping,Theatre, Dancing, Running,Cats, Bees, and last but not least - hanging out with my family and friends.

I'd like to meet:

Friends and networking contacts.

Music:

Indie, Classical, Opera, Blues, Electronic, EBM, Industrial, Rock, Ambient, Thrash, Jazz. Thank you to the wonderful Swinners Music(featured on my top friends) for writing five themes - Eleanor,Lesley, Madge to Madeline,Tom Atkinson and Cameron based on the characters in my book Nobody I Know and for using my lyrics for some of his later music.

Movies:

Casablanca, Always, High Society, The Matrix, Strictly Ballroom, Dances with Wolves, Brief Encounter, Lord of the Rings, Cinema Paradiso, The Bicycle Thief, Romauld et Juliette, Fight Club, 13th Floor, Pulp Fiction, Trains Planes and Automobiles, Wonderful Life, Star Wars, The Trueman Show, Toy Story, Babe, All the Bourne films.

Television:

The Sopranos, Hustle,Ashes to Ashes (Gene Hunt - swoon!) House, Battlestar Gallactica, 24, Planet Earth, Life on Mars, 4400, Dr. Who, Star Trek (in all its incarnations), Anything Sci-fi, Detective stories,Thrillers, Question Time, This Week

Books:

Too many to mention, but a few of my favourite authors are:- Angela Carter, Kate Atkinson, Annie Proulx, Sebastian Faulks, Jane Austen, Henry James, Nabokov, Kafka, D.F Delderfield, Margaret Atwood,Tolstoy, Charles Dickens , Milan Kundera, Voltaire, Jostein Gaarder, Santa Montefiore.Poetry - Keats, Blake, Shakespeare, Coleridge, Donne, Frost, Dickinson, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Dylan Thomas, Langston Hughes.

Heroes:

All those involved with Medecins Sans Frontieres

My Blog

The holiday - featuring drug overdose, a wedding, a riot...to mention just a few incidents

Instalment I - Drug Overdose On 29th May, arriving at the airport with no sleep, I had duly packed tranquillisers for the flight, dispensed by my doctor.  I'm not a good traveller anyway on plane...
Posted by Phyl on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:46:00 PST

So how dark are His Dark Materials?

I have been involved in a blog debate over the last week or so with someone in America over the film - The Golden Compass.  This is based on the Philip Pullman's trilogy - His Dark Materials, whi...
Posted by Phyl on Tue, 06 May 2008 08:56:00 PST

The Time Traveller

 The Time Traveller     The concepts of space and time Were not mysteries to him He longed for the companionship Of his own people He dreamt almost every night Of a place so far away L...
Posted by Phyl on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:17:00 PST

Time and Space

..TR> ..TR> Science Fiction Author Arthur C. ClarkeDies Aged 90 From Times OnlineLech Mintowt-Czyz, March 18, 2008   The visionary author of over 100 books, who predicted the existence of sat...
Posted by Phyl on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:11:00 PST

Cherry Blossom

Spring is finally here!  I know this because the cherry blossom trees are out - my favourite trees.  Nothing lifts the spirits like cherry blossoms, and I think that much of their beauty lie...
Posted by Phyl on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:43:00 PST

Obsessive Love

  My endless fascination with you No matter how many people were in a room I knew where you were Always I sensed you as I laughed and spoke with others Ever aware of your presence An invisible c...
Posted by Phyl on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:20:00 PST

New Lyrics

Sea Horses    Ever widening ripples As we stood by the sea The play of light on water Imaging you and me   Chorus Sea horses on the horizon Reveal a bright new day Riding the turquoise ...
Posted by Phyl on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:14:00 PST

Busy Bees

I realise not everyone shares my fascination with bees, but I don't think many people know just how much we humans depend on them for pollination.  Due to a condition called colony collapse diso...
Posted by Phyl on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:43:00 PST

Tagged by Mayjay

Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 random things, facts, habits or goals about yourself. At the end, you choose about 10 people to be tagged, listing their names and why you cho...
Posted by Phyl on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:44:00 PST

The Indiscernible

Another life, another dimension Another world, another place Clarifying the illusion Through time and space   A world of ifs and buts Existing nowhere at all Whispering your name Can you hear th...
Posted by Phyl on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:11:00 PST