The novel Jonathan is currently working on is in a genre called ‘fictionalised memoir’. The idea is to weave a narrative into the random events of life and try to make them seem interconnected: a series of choices and consequences, as you’d find in a novel. Jonathan (ever the comedian!) likes to call it a ‘sorta-biography’. He’s due to finish it in early 2027.

Meanwhile, as a kind of ‘proof of concept’, he’s been publishing on his Substack a few excerpts: stand-alone short stories (ten-fifteen minute reads) about particular adventures, misadventures and characters. Titles includes DREADLOCKS TONY AND THE GREAT ART HEIST, A CRASH COURSE IN FLYING MICROLIGHTS and HOW TO ACE INTERVIEWS; bite-sized, stand-alone stories - always fun and interesting, and sometimes funny, and sometimes even, if you half-close your eyes and squint, wise.

Many of them have since been picked up and published on prestigious literary and memoir sites such as The Lowestoft Chronicle (less ‘Suffolk’ than it sounds!), Close to the Bone, and The Memoirist.

However, they’re now all published together (Kindle or paperback) in a single collection: True Stories I Probably Shouldn’t Tell

Oh, go on! It’s good, and it’s only a couple of quid!

Meanwhile, the novel-writing continues…