040 Come Back To Me, Then Go Away - GERRY KING talks about London, Memories and Writing Auto-Fiction

GERRY KING writes autobiographical fiction – commonly referred to as auto-fiction. Amongst other writings, he is the author of Lubin Tales and Smoke and Other Tales. His most recent book published by Tangent Books in September 2021 is entitled Come Back To Me, Then Go Away.

Gerry was born in Battersea (south London) and spent his early years there, Surrey and then Torquay. His father is the famous 1950s boxer known as the Torquay Tornado. Gerry’s teenage years were dominated by drink and drugs, a time in Borstal, a further time of drugs and crime before finally disengaging himself from addiction through fate, chance and his interest in writing, poetry and the arts.

Gerry believes that “if you are going to change, there’s got to be some honesty”.

Some people find change through self-help groups, he found it through art and writing. Even while in Borstal he had the opportunity to learn a skill but there was always the lure of drink and drugs. His goal every day was to get out of it, to function but it is always easier to stay the same than to change but he had a kind of “blind faith” that it would get better.

He looks back now and reflects, “I cannot believe how stupid I was!”

This is Gerry’s story of London, the world and life as we spend the first half of the podcast walking and talking from Liverpool St Station to Petticoat Lane and to his home. The second half of the podcast takes place in his council flat in the area where it is said that “if you have your foot in the gutter you are in Tower Hamlets, and if you have your foot on the pavement you are in the City”

TO GET IN CONTACT WITH GERRY AND BUY HIS BOOKS:

Email: GerardKing@gmail.com

Facebook @stealerant

BUY his Books from Tangent Books: www.tangentbooks.co.uk

Instagram: @gerrykingthewriter

MORE ABOUT GERRY here: www.zerolubin.wordpress.com

TO KNOW MORE ABOUT YOUR PODCAST HOST: www.travellingthrough.co.uk

THANKS AS ALWAYS TO MARISKA @mariskamartina for creating the PODCAST JINGLE