As seen on Sky Arts’ Playhouse Presents:
Imagine there’s no Lennon . . . In the reality-altering novella “Snodgrass,” John Lennon sidesteps his musical destiny and instead becomes a civil servant
After spending his adolescence like so many others had, playing in a band with friends, John Lennon knows it’s time to grow up. Skipping out on the Beatles before they would go on to become one of the greatest rock groups of the twentieth century, John moves to Birmingham. As he watches the exploits of friends Paul, Ringo, and George, John grows older and lives an ordinary life . . . and he is left wondering “what if?”
With “Snodgrass” as its anchor, this collection of eleven stories also includes “The Chop Girl,” inspired by the infamous Dresden bombing raids; “Past Magic,” a futuristic account of parents cloning their children who have passed away; “New Light on the Drake Equation,” inspired by a man’s journey as he searches for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence; and seven more tales that showcase MacLeod’s breadth as a writer.
You can visit the publisher's site HERE for links to sites where you can purchase 'Snodgrass and Other Illusions,' or purchase from amazon.co.uk or amazon.com.
Full contents are... Introduction/The Chop Girl/Past Magic/Hector Douglas Makes a Sale/Nevermore/Second Journey of the Magus/New Light on the Drake Equation/Snodgrass/The Master Miller's Tale/Isabel of the Fall/Tirkiluk//Grownups — each story with a brand new afterword
I've been writing a young adult novel called Lisa Moon and the Leonardo Timepiece. As the cover and title might suggest, it combines touches of magic, fantasy and history with a deviously smiling heroine you might just recognise - and, I hope, a great deal of adventure and fun. This is a new departure for me, and I'm very keen to have the views of readers, young, old or in-between, as to what they think of it. If you enjoy it, or don't, feel free to comment! Here's a large extract, free to download... (to download, right click, select 'save target as' and choose a location, to open in your browser, left click the link)
Ian Hart as an aging John Lennon in the Sky Playhouse adaptation of my story 'Snodgrass'.
Open Road Media will shortly be publishing all my novels as e-books. They're starting with a "Best Of" collection of short stories called Snodgrass and Other Illusions, featuring some favourites from my whole career, a few rarities, and individual afterwords. More anon.
This to be in time for the showing of Snodgrass on Sky Playhouse on 25 April.
http://skyarts.sky.com/playhouse-presents/series-2-announced
There's an interview with the scriptwriter David Quantick about the upcoming production of Snodgrass if you go about 1.38 mins into this link...
My short story 'Snodgrass' is as due to appear on 25 April here in the UK as part of the latest Sky Playhouse series. The premise is the life a John Lennon who quit the Beatles just before they became famous, and ended up living in Birmingham and working for a while in the civil service (so no personal parallels there at all), whilst the Beatles went on to became almost as big as The Hollies, or the Bee Gees… Here are three photographs taken at the shoot.
David Quantic wrote the script, and the old John is played by Ian Hart, who has previous in this role.
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