From the Lighthouse

<p><p>From a back garden near Liverpool to the borders of Afghanistan from Moscow to New York author Paul L. McGregor takes us on a journey of discovery through fiction and journalism. </p></p><p><p>A son of the working class he presents narratives that combine fictional portraits of those who today would be called underprivileged with journalistic pieces whose countercultural commentaries offer a reminder of long-lost and much-maligned cultural spiritual and personal values. In these tales McGregor recalls his parents his childhood home and his working-class neighbourhood in England; the collapse of the workers’ paradise in Russia; and meeting the saintly Fr. Ho Lung in Kingston Jamaica. Riding a bus to the Mexican border an ex-convict gives him a lesson in dignity and centuries-old frescoes in Italy lead him to reflect on what future awaits the Western world. </p></p><p><p>By turns poetic and whimsical this insightful collection of stories describes one man’s quest to sail off into the world and share the adventure.</p></p>