Philip Spires
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I was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom and grew up in Sharlston, then a mining village. After London University I lived in Kenya. Then I taught in London before moving to Brunei and then the UAE. Since 2003, I have lived in Spain. My books, Mission and A Fool\\\'s Knot, are African novels set in Kenya, and examine how people cope with social and economic change.
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A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali is unfortunately understated. The book could be so much more horrific, but the reader may not be able to cope. On the other hand, it is also an over-reaction, whose excesses might just detract from its core message.
Notes On A Scandal describes the people and events that conspire to generate an affair between a teacher and her student. The observer, a diarist, is however not without motives of her own.
Pain Wears No Mask is a thriller that operates on several levels. The motives and motivations of those involved are part of a story that travels between London and Newcastle via Peru and involves gangsters, murderers, policemen and at least one nun.
In Resistance German troops occupy Britain, men disappear, relationships blossom and life goes on.
The Heart Of The Matter, like a Shakespearean tragedy, presents a deeply moving examination of motive and conscience.
In The Destiny Of Natalie X William Boyd examines the nature of selfishness and self interenst in human relationships.
In Angels and Insects A S Byatt examines how ideology can determine the direction of relationships.
The Amateur Marriage dissects sixty years or ordinary lives, lived in an ordinary way, thus capturing their essential, inevitable unpredictability.
A small English village offers an idyllic face to the world. The reality is a complex web of deceit, envy, mixed motives, marital breakdown and extra-marital adventure. Poverty is the same everywhere, however, as is envy.
The Heart Of The Country scrapes through the surface of a rural idyll to reveal people doing what people do. In a rural English setting, we find a caricature of modern British society and its inter-relationships.
