This short adult novel could be about midlife crisis. It could be about art and creativity or about love, marriage, infidelity and divorce. But it's not. This is a novel about escape. Set between New York and the artists' colony of St. Ives in Cornwall, 'Portrait of a Landscape', presents two men: sculptor, Hugh Borne, and fine art photographer, Jack Rockshaw, whose creative, emotional and professional lives are in crisis. Hugh Borne has agreed to leave London to spend the winter with Jack Rockshaw's family in a desperate bid to find inspiration for a commissioned work and to distance himself...

"Who needs acid when you've got memories like mine?" Take Turgenev's 'First Love', turn Vladimir into a girl and Pyotr Vasilyevich into Zinaida's father. Throw in a one way expedition to Mars made into a TV reality show and add a brain-frying orgasm suicide pill. Next add a sprinkling of porn, the advice of a well hung Oxford don, a thief with a camcorder, and a murder trial. Finally set the whole lot to David Bowie's 'Heathen' and you're about done. Stick the events in the year 2024 and have them stewed over by an aged bisexual fifty years beyond that. 'Spaceman Daddy' is a semi-erotic...