Clive Payne

They say that there is a book in everyone and so I felt compelled to relate my story. Is my novel fiction or non-fiction? It is simply up to the reader to decide.

I left school at fifteen and have probably had more than 100 different jobs.

The best book I have read recently is Naples '44 by Norman Lewis. Other favourite reads are: Around the World in Eighty Days. Treasure Island, Birdsong, the French Lieutenant's Woman, From Russia with Love, the Daughter of Time and many more.