New Book

Portraits from Paris: School and Travel Remembered from the City of Light.

Published on 1st May
A fictionalised memoir set in Paris between 2019 and 2024, it combines memories from my boarding school childhood in 1970s Sussex with travel experiences between leaving school and moving to France. The thread that binds the narrative is my journey toward becoming a painter.
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American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen (2018)

Gavin Cologne-Brookes, LSU Press

American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen begins with a visit to the Jersey Shore and ends with a meditation on the international legacy of Springsteen’s writing, music, and performances. Gavin Cologne-Brookes’s innovative study of this popular musician and his position in American culture blends scholarship with personal reflection, providing both an academic examination of Springsteen’s work and a moving account of how it offers a way out of emotional solitude and the potential lonesomeness of modern life.
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Tango, Buenos Aires (2019)

My paintings provide a further kind of observation and expression. Together with my passing interest in photography, these art forms intimately relate to one another. My vision of creative and critical expression is holistic. In my studio, I move back and forth between writing and painting. Out in the world, I used to carry a camera, though now generally only use a phone to capture moments that might become subjects for my writing or painting.
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