It is a very busy time. I am currently publishing

• my first poetry book "The Bay" and
• my two-volume creative memoir Buffalo Gals about my Great Adventure in Africa and beyond.

In 2024 we finished "Remembering Dorothy", a festschrift of pieces for the centenary of the birth of my mother, the eminent playwright and poet Dorothy Hewett - with a strong collection of memories from major Australian theatrical figures, and several stories of my own.

Back in 2013 I self-published

- "Unravelling the code: The Coads and Coodes of Cornwall and Devon", a giant 300,000 word genealogical portrait of a surname. It did surprisingly well.

On the literary side, already completed and ready to be formatted for publication are

• My mystical memoir-novel "Jacob's Ladder" set in 1970-71, where, under existential fear of the draft, I lived in a house full of odd characters and ended up with an eccentric wedding.
• A book of short stories, "The Phenomenon", largely about the very different women who flitted into and out of my life, without leaving much except quick memories.
• My second book of accumulated poetry 2012-2023, Ouroboros: Eternity and Endless Return

Waiting to be written are

• "He Ain't Heavy", a sad and uplifting memoir about my little son Nathaniel who died of leukemia at age 7 after a mighty fight.
• "The Last Australian", about the wanderings of my father-figure Trot Maguire as he sought his missing sons and the great abuses of Australian history, while suffering from delusional schizophrenia
• "Jury Duty", about the Revenge Rapist and doubts about his conviction.

Publishing houses make a great deal of "genre" these days, as various genres once considered trivial or lowbrow have taken over the book trade. I seem to be comfortable in a spot somewhere between "literary memoir" and "magical realism", which is something of a family tradition. This has its dangers, as my mother found out when she was sued in 1974-6 and attacked in every major newspaper and the Australian Senate in 2018. Hopefully we have learned something from this. 

For non-fiction I am planning

• Long Wave: Hitting the Top, about history reaching a potential warlike head now, at the top of the sixth long wave
• The Years of Plague, from my Covid blog during the years of shutdown.
• The Three Ancestors (well, some better name) as to how and why over 75% of European men are descended from 3 men who lived around 3300BC. 

Much work ahead, and much marketing needed to get the messages through.