R.B.RUSSELL has only recently started writing fiction seriously, having previously written lyrics, composed music, and drawn in pen and ink for his own amusement. He runs Tartarus Press with Rosalie Parker from their home in the Yorkshire Dales.

LITERARY REMAINS: When I look back on my life in Eastbourne in the late 1980s I find it amazing that I could have ever had enough time and energy to accom-plish what I did.