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By Bard of Ely


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The World's Most Mysterious People signed by the authors
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Five books I am featured in

I am very proud to say that I have been written about in some depth in books by fellow authors and am included in a total of five works so far.

My good friend Chris Stone aka CJ Stone has written about me and quoted me extensively in his books Fierce Dancing - Adventures in the Underground and The Last of the Hippies (both by Faber and Faber), as well as in his collection of past stories in The Guardian newspaper in Housing Benefit Hill (AKA Press).

I also play a big part in The Trials of Arthur (Element), which was co-written by CJ again under his full name of Christopher James Stone, writing in partnership with King Arthur Pendragon. It is the true story of how John Rothwell became convinced that he was the spirit of King Arthur returned, and how he changed his name by deed poll and began his new life as an eco-warrior and leader of a Druid order.

Chris Stone's books published by Faber have some wonderful illustrations by Eldad Druks and many of these are off me in various circumstances at different times in my life.

Peter Finch, who is a well-known poet, who came to fame in the late sixties and has many volumes of poetry to his name, as well as being a writer and literary critic, featured me as his guide to the Ely council estate in Cardiff in his book Real Cardiff (Seren). Peter looks behind the public image aimed at tourists to meet with the real people and characters of the city and visit the places that perhaps get left out of the news and general publicity for Cardiff.

Lionel Fanthorpe and his wife, co-author and agent Patricia, included a chapter about me in their The World's Most Mysterious People, which was part of a series of books published by Hounslow. Lionel is probably most famous for his past role of being the presenter for the popular Fortean TV television series.

Lionel is also the author of as many as 250 books and poetry anthologies and collections, and he is a Guinness Book of Records record-breaker, as well as having been a multi-media celebrity as a broadcaster on TV and radio and for having had newspaper columns. He has been a headmaster, a lecturer, a business consultant, financial advisor and a tutor. Besides all that, Lionel is a martial arts expert, a Harley Davidson motorbike owner and an ordained parish priest.

It was a great surprise, and a very welcome one, to be in these books, and I am very proud to have been written about in all these authors' works, but Lionel's is the one that surprised me the most! I had never thought I would be included in a volume about such famous and infamous names as Aleister Crowley, Nikola Tesla, Rasputin, Gurdjieff and Francis Bacon but in Lionel Fanthorpe's book this has happened.

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bingskee profile image

bingskee  says:
5 months ago

interesting facts about Steve Andrews...

Bard of Ely profile image

Bard of Ely  says:
5 months ago

Thank you for reading and posting!

Aya Katz profile image

Aya Katz  says:
5 months ago

Bard of Ely, it's a great distinction to have been featured in so many books! And what a great title for one of them: The World's Most Mysterious People!

Pete Maida profile image

Pete Maida  says:
5 months ago

That's pretty cool.

Bard of Ely profile image

Bard of Ely  says:
5 months ago

Thank you, Aya and Pete!

Patty Inglish, MS profile image

Patty Inglish, MS  says:
5 months ago

Super! - Anyone included in a list with Nikola Tesla must be grand indeed. Good on you!

Bard of Ely profile image

Bard of Ely  says:
5 months ago

Thank you, Patty!

blondepoet profile image

blondepoet  says:
5 months ago

Wow Bard I bet you are thrilled to see your score go back up and 100 woo hoo pass some of it onto me please.

Bard of Ely profile image

Bard of Ely  says:
5 months ago

Yes, I am, Blondepoet, and I have actually been motivated and inspired by this whole sorry incident to join the challenge and hub even more! Thank you for posting!

The Old Firm profile image

The Old Firm  says:
5 months ago

Well done Bard. It must feel good to be appreciated, and acknowledged for it.

Cheers

TOF

Bard of Ely profile image

Bard of Ely  says:
5 months ago

Yes, it does! Thank you for posting, TOF!

Writer Rider profile image

Writer Rider  says:
5 months ago

Great stuff Bard.

Bard of Ely profile image

Bard of Ely  says:
5 months ago

Thank you, WR! Looks like I will be in a forthcoming book about Leonard Cohen too that Anthony Reynolds is writing. He has books on the Walker Brothers and Jeff Buckley already.

Writer Rider profile image

Writer Rider  says:
5 months ago

I just discovered Leonard Cohen on KPBS a few days ago. Fabulous artist (as well as you of course)! Tell us when the book comes out so we can buy a copy.

Bard of Ely profile image

Bard of Ely  says:
5 months ago

I posted a link for this hub over at Facebook and Anthony posted there that he will interview me for his book. I have been a Cohen fan since I was 16 and saw him live at the Isle of Wight all those years back. I have just posted a video in my recent hub about "Good" and "Bad" being human concepts of Leonard narrating a documentary about the Tibetan Book of the Dead and by a synchronicity it turns out that Anthony has recently watched this too.

Here is a hub about Anthony:

http://hubpages.com/_uq6h62db2t97/hub/To-kill-a-fl

He is on Myspace and Facebook so why not add him and say hello?

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