Mark Glinski-Grant

When I’m not sitting at my desk writing or editing, then I can often be found sitting in my wicker chair next to a gothic side table reading inspiring novels and teachings.

(I would heartily recommend Bulwer-Lytton, a long-forgotten spiritual novelist and friend of Charles Dickens, who coined the phrase ‘The Pen is Mightier than the Sword’).

On the other hand, I might also be going for long walks in the Welsh hills or practising my lute. Sometimes, I might actually start meditating and then decide to watch an old comedy instead.

Son of a Polish baron who wasn’t a baron at all. My late father’s original name was Glinski, except that it turned out it wasn’t, but it now makes a nice addition to my name. My mother was Welsh and hopefully descended from King Arthur.

I was born in England. Am I English or a citizen of the world? Well, both.

I now live in the Wirral, ancient ‘land of the myrtle’, a peninsula north of Chester and across the River Mersey from Liverpool. A place where the Vikings settled many moons ago. A land of strange place names and stirring legends, inhabited by a friendly and humorous people. On every street corner can be heard the whispering ghosts and eccentric characters of a vanished past that yet live in the collective memory. A place where the imagination still prospers.

Writing this novel in our lovely family home in Cilgwri has been the happiest two years of my life.

To hear me reciting a relevant excerpt from Sir Thomas Malory’s epic book Le Morte d’Arthur, click on my name above this text (pc/desktop only).

Or view at:

https://youtu.be/lbsYl9rnXM8

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"Go, little book, from this my solitude!

I cast thee on the waters - go thy ways!

And if as I believe, thy vein be good,

The world will find thee after many days."

Lord Byron