In the ridiculous and rather pretentious belief that I was living as an ‘existentialist’, my early adult life included a series of jobs – debt collector, worker in a Scottish canning factory, photographer, teacher, running away to a circus and then running away from it. I also spent time living and working in Spain, Italy and Denmark.
Subsequently, much of my working life has been as an academic, during which time I have churned out many articles, most of which make for dull reading. My interest was in marginalised communities and group identities. I worked in the departments of Education and Anthropology at Exeter University, and ended up as Professor of Cultural Identities at Bath Spa University. To differentiate between my academic persona and more creative self, I usually write under the name, Levi M.
Website (currently under re-construction): levi-m.com
E-mail: [email protected]
In collaboration with Somerset writer and stained glass artist, Avril Silk, I wrote Dreams of the Road (Birlinn Press) and also two stage plays, Beyond Expectations and The Ghosts of Mr Dickens. My writing veers on a rather eclectic path, sometimes humorous, occasionally, satirical, and when the mood takes me, pitched at Young Adult.
My three most recent novels reflect this diversity.
- YE OLDE SCEPTRED
- HOW TO SURVIVE THE 21st Century: A HANDBOOK FOR PENSIONERS
- MY HAMSTER, THE FÜHRER