Dick Sullivan

Dick Sullivan (aka Richard) writes about Platonism from personal experience. The beauties of the earth connect us to eternity - that in essence is Platonism, along with the fact that the right kind of learning makes a person more fully evolved and actualised. He talks about this in four books - One Last Summer and The Nature of Things (both non-fiction): Hills of Age (poetry): Gideon’s God (a novel). He posts on these themes on Substack.

In contrast, he wrote his first book - Navvyman - in the 1980s: navvies were the men who built the UK’s canals, railways, docks and dams, with their bare hands. Navvying ended in the 1940s on the Haweswater dam, where Dick Sullivan was born, in Westmorland in northern England. His great-grandfather was a Cornish tin miner who took to navvying in the 1860s.