NOVELS
Great Tits I've Known
(And Other Species)
“A great insight into Thailand”
“He found himself in Pattaya, a den of sexual depravity as one reviewer so eloquently termed it.”
“A first-person account of a European man who found himself in the sin-city of Thailand, Pattaya”
“Dream-fuelled fantasy and lust”
“Jonathan Finch is a modern-day Dickens in both literary polish and subject matter, playing with language like a master and digging deep into the human soul with dark and relentless sincerity.” David Wright author of “A Travel Guide To Murder”, reviewing “Darkest Kiss” for Amazon.
This novel tries to make sense of bad romance. Its setting is London in the 1970’s and its narrator tries to make sense of a love affair using letters, memories and scraps of information. He becomes paranoid, and in this state he continues to unravel the events that have disturbed him so much. An unreliable narrator whom the reader cannot believe in? And yet the evidence is there to suppose that he loved deeply and that the dark lady in question deceived badly. The narrator’s final, drastic decision means he has no choice but to escape to Africa.
Darkest Kiss
The first part “Travels With Ben” is funny but is an attempt to unravel similar material to the second “Travels With Katharine”. In both sections, the poles are apart but far too close together for comfort. Aggression, competition, dishonesty, exploitation and deceit mean the narrator is forever involved with undesirable people, unable to make it in a world that seems a reflection of his own nightmares, his own illness, and his own need for extreme, tragic solutions.
“This is a very odd book with lots of humour in the first part and lots of misery in the second . . .”
After Dawn
“The biggest . . . source of surprise for me was his beautifully detailed and thought-provoking nature scenes of the Scottish highlands.”
“ . . . the gift of word play he uses to capture the angst of his central character . . . ”
“This romantic story poetically evokes a tender promise of love and eternity . . .”
“ . . . you begin to dream the same dream as the author, and to see the gift of word play he uses . . . ”
. . . (he captures) “the angst of his central character, the broken people he encounters, and their shared regrets. This is beautiful prose and poetry . . .”
There are two other editions of “Great Tits I've Known (And Other Species)”. “Collected Selected Words” is out of print, but “Sexy Thai Bar Girls & Me : Sex Adventures in Asia” can be purchased by following the link below the picture. It is a longer version of “Great Tits I've Known (And Other Species)”, has two distinct narrators, and more information on the bar scene in Pattaya.