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Unkle Munky last updated Tue 7th July 2009 Writer of the Month for July added. Sun 5th July 2009 Writer of the Month for June added. Thur 4th June 2009 Winstanley by Kevin Brownlow added to UKA Press Bookshop & Main Page Tue 19th May 2009 Writer of the Month for May added. Tue 5th May 2009 Writer of the Month for April added. Fri 3rd Apr 2009 Writer of the Month for March added. Wed 4th Mar 2009 Writer of the Month for February added. Tue 3rd Feb 2009 Van Gogh Had a Day Job' by John Webber added to Uka Members Bookshop - Fri 30th Jan 2009
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UK Authors Writer of the Month. July 2009 - Rupert Haigh (Rupe)
At 13, I was sent off to a very traditional boys’ boarding school, the first year or two of which were not altogether pleasant – but things improved later. I wasn’t much good at anything in particular at school (except daydreaming and looking out of the window during class – skills my teachers tended to undervalue), but I eventually developed a knack for writing short but clearly-worded essays and inventing plausible-sounding statistics. This got me some decent A level results, and I went on to university, after a year of working in various unusual jobs and doing a bit of travelling. I chose to study English, partly because it was my best subject at school and partly because I thought it wouldn’t involve too much hard work (which turned out to be true). At that stage, I had no ideas about a future career at all.
The result of this was I emerged from university in 1992, after three fairly somnolent years, with a mediocre degree, no clear direction, and a not-especially-marketable knowledge of Renaissance literature. I applied half-heartedly for a number of jobs, didn’t get any of them, and wound up spending six months working as a stock controller for a mail order hamper company. After one too many afternoons counting sides of smoked salmon in the freezer, it dawned on me that it was time to acquire some proper professional skills.
In a spirit of pure masochism, therefore, I opted to train as a solicitor. Before starting, I decided to spend the money saved from the stock controlling job on learning French. I went to Paris in the early part of 1993 and studied at the Alliance Française for a couple of months. During a further trip to France that summer I met a Finnish girl, K – but it all seemed impossible at the time. We stayed in touch by letter.
I spent the next couple of years studying law in Bournemouth and then Oxford. The subject was slightly less boring than I’d anticipated, and 1993-1995 were good years to spend studying: the kind of music I’d always listened to became briefly fashionable and local bands like Radiohead and Supergrass were making waves. There were some good parties. In some ways I’m still stuck mentally in that time zone (I think this is a common ailment).
Actually working as a solicitor – which I did from 1995 to 2000 in medium-sized law firms in Reading, Aylesbury and Swindon (glamour towns all…) – was a progressively disillusioning but curiously educational experience. I specialised in divorce law, which meant meeting depressed and embittered people every single day, messing about with a lot of bits of paper and hanging round the County Court. By mid-1999 I was ready for a change.
At this point, K was studying in Paris and we were back in touch. I made a snap decision to call time on my career and move to Finland with her. It took another year to work out the practicalities, but in August 2000 I took a flight to Helsinki, and have lived here continuously since. On arrival, I spent a year studying for an LLM in International Law at Helsinki University, just for the hell of it, then did a 9-month stint as a technical writer, before settling down to teach legal English and write textbooks on the subject. I’ve been doing that ever since. K and I got married in 2002, and we now have two kids and live just outside Helsinki.
Title - Winstanley>>> Author - Kevin Brownlow>>> For further details click here...
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