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’.

As a kind of ‘proof of concept’, he’s written a few stand-alone short stories (ten-fifteen minute reads) about particular incidents/events/people, many of which have ben published online on such prestigious sites as The Lowestoft Chronicle (less ‘Suffolk’ than it sounds!), Close to the Bone, and The Memoirist.

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 even, if you half-close your eyes and squint, sometimes wise, too.

They’re all here on Substack. Oh, and do consider subscribing while you’re about it!