Gerry Skoyles

Sitting on the sand outside a beaten-up campervan in the middle of the Registan Desert in Afghanistan happened to be the place where I wrote my first published travel article. The next dispatch, penned in a Mumbai slum, winged its way from India back home to the publisher’s UK offices. Eventually I arrived home in England and wrote a couple of crime novels, a few short stories and a comedy script for BBC television before sailing off to Australia for a few years. In 2010 my latest novel, Pursuit to Paradise, written under a pen name and set in Thailand, was published in the USA with a second edition published in Thailand last year. My latest work, a Romantic comedy/Action adventure feature length screenplay set in the west Pacific Ocean is complete and ready to roll.

Bridge on the River Kwai. Pearl Harbour. Thelma and Louise. War Horse. The African Queen. Brassed Off. Alfie(1966) The Italian Job(original) The Full Monty. Good Morning Vietnam. Hope and Glory. The Tailor of Panama.

Writer John Sullivan, especially for the TV sitcom,'Only Fools and Horses'.

Director John Boorman, in particular, 'The Tailor of Panama' and 'Hope and Glory'.