Brief Encounters

By Geraint Ellis

Eight humorous stories, many of which deal with the confusions that arise when we become over-concerned about our image – when we care too much what others will think of us. But in our over-eagerness to create that ‘hip-cool-nobody’s-fool’ image and thereby gain the admiration of our peers, we can, all too easily, become the sport of all our passing ideas ...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Geraint Ellis
• Release date: Jan 29, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301759477

Geraint Ellis

Born on the Isle of Anglesey - a stone’s throw from the ancestral home of the Tudors, the author hails from a long line of creative artists who lived in Beaumaris. His great, great, great grandfather born a decade before Beethoven, was an organ builder and musician. (Google, Lewis Ellis Anglesey) Educated in Germany, Oxford and York, the author’s professional career was in Education in England. He retired at the age of fifty two, and returned to live in his native Wales. He is married to Margaret, and they have two sons, Matthew and Robert.

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