Title: Listening to Coloured Dreams
Description: A humorous and poignant collection of short stories about growing up in the 1960s. Themes are eclectic,ranging from first love to life in a university hall of residence, via a production of "Volpone" staged in Denmark, used as an elegy to lost youth. These are carefully crafted tales from an era often chronicled but not often often captured as engagingly.
Subjects: London, youth culture, 1960s memoir, music in 1960s, first love, cultural identity, summer of love, suburbia, Revolver, Nineteen sixties, Youth, Biography
Places: London, Wales, North Kent, Bromley, Chiselhurst
People: Ted Heath, Fleetwood Mac, Ben Jonson, hippies, the phantom screamer, Beatles
Time periods: 1960-1974