A Frank Literary Blog!

Below you'll find blog pieces and short videos sharing my fiction, and take-aways on great literature, as well as my thoughts on mental well-being and the three principles understanding! For updates, please subscribe!

Ben Okri - The Joys of Storytelling (Episode 5)

Part 5 of my celebration of Ben Okri’s wonderful collection of essays, A Way of Being Free, published in 1997. I love this book, it’s a...

Oct 8, 2022

You Are the Blue Sky by Sarah Kostin

This is a beautiful book, and I cannot recommend it enough, especially if you're new to the 3Ps, and it all sounds a little weird...

Sep 17, 2022

Three Principles?

So, I wrote this earlier, in response to a question about exactly what my Three Principles Whitstable Facebook group was about, and...

Sep 16, 2022

Ben Okri - The Joys of Storytelling (Episode 4)

My celebration of Ben Okri’s wonderful collection of essays, A Way of Being Free, published in 1997. I love this book, it’s a poetic and...

Nov 22, 2021

Ben Okri - The Joys of Storytelling (Episode 2)

Continuing my celebration of Ben Okri’s wonderful collection of essays, A Way of Being Free, published in 1997. Episode 2 here! I love...

Aug 5, 2021

Ben Okri - The Joys of Storytelling (Episode 3)

Continuing my celebration of Ben Okri’s wonderful collection of essays, A Way of Being Free, published in 1997. Episode 3 here! I love...

Aug 4, 2021

Ben Okri - The Joys of Storytelling! (Part 1)

My celebration of Ben Okri’s wonderful collection of essays, A Way of Being Free, published in 1997. I love this book, it’s a poetic and...

Jul 19, 2021

Underworld by Don Delillo

A little take-away from Don Delillo’s wonderful 1997 novel, Underworld! After a stylistically perfect opening sequence, set in 1951, the...

Jul 13, 2021

Stoner - A literary epiphany (short version)

My short take-away from the 1965 novel, Stoner by John Williams. William Stoner attends university to study agriculture with a view to...

Jul 11, 2021

Hamlet by William Shakespeare - Creating tension

My short audio on the opening lines of Hamlet by William Shakespeare! This week’s take-away focuses on how Shakespeare creates tension...

Jul 10, 2021

Consumerism and Ego — A Meditation.

The vapid emptiness of consumerism. So many things. So much stuff. Appealing to ego. The me me me in ourselves… Infinities of me me me…...

Nov 19, 2020

The Remains of the Day - Bantering!

My short audio on the issue of bantering in the novel, The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro. For Stevens bantering is a...

Jul 26, 2020

Big Chief Antler - A Fragment

You can talk, she thought, it’s all right for you. It was Sunday again and they were walking in Richmond Park. “You’re not even...

Jun 5, 2020

Duration - A Fragment

That mug of tea steamed and I left it on the table awhile to cool. She was gone and that was all there was to it. Three seagulls started...

Jun 3, 2020

Dante and the Lobster by Samuel Beckett

From the 1934 collection, More Pricks Than Kicks, Samuel Beckett's short story, "Dante and the Lobster" is for me, one of the great...

May 29, 2020

Tuesday 11th September 2001 - A Fragment

The pigeon was nearly dead. It was resting, not moving. A group of schoolgirls had gathered and stood looking down at it. The shoppers...

May 28, 2020

Stoner by John Williams: A Literary Epiphany

My short take-away from the 1965 novel, Stoner by John Williams. William Stoner attends university to study agriculture with a view to...

May 27, 2020

Why I Love... The Fly by Katherine Mansfield

Katherine Mansfield was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century, with works such as Bliss, In a German Pension, The...

May 26, 2020

Why I Love... A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease by Jonathan Safran Foer

Taken from the 2003 collection, The Burned Children of America, Jonathan Safran Foer's short story, A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart...

May 21, 2020

Why the Hell? - A Fragment

"And that's not all she told me," said Ellie. "No?" he said. "No." "Go on, then," he said. “She said you sit watching the window. She...

May 19, 2020

Why I Love... The Battler by Ernest Hemingway

My take on the Hemingway short story, "The Battler" from the collection, In Our Time, published in 1925. Young Nick Adams has just been...

May 17, 2020

Hamlet by William Shakespeare - The Greatest Line!

One of the great works of world literature, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, is famous for its revenge narrative, its existential angst,...

May 14, 2020

Almost a Week - A Fragment

"When will you be home?" She looked through the dark to the window then closed her eyes. She yawned and tried to sound tired."Tuesday,...

May 10, 2020

Little Flame - A Fragment

My new cooker was delivered today, but I had to send it back. I needed a new cooker because the old one had little pictures of flames...

May 7, 2020

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