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Harry Riley. English author born 1940. Happily married for over 50 years, with two grown up children. Retired after a lifetime in commercial printing.
Born: Nottingham England-1940. Mother of Irish Catholic descent-County Sligo. Father-soldier, missing presumed dead, until discovered by Red Cross in Burmese jungle: Japanese P.O.W. camp after end of World War Two.
Harry never met his father until aged 6 and had never read a book until aged 10, however has never stopped reading books rapaciously ever since. He did not write books until retirement in 2009, aged 69. He was keen to write creative fiction and wrote 2 mystery novels and several books of short stories. Then a poetry anthology, then non-fiction; local history-community books.
Always wishing to try other mediums, Harry turned to broadcasting: 50 short scripts for BBC Radio Nottingham, then Broadcasting daily on Millside hospital radio, a comedy drama with the Millside Players and a silly Pantomime, again with Millside players, then broadcasting a conversational poem for two actors: about a real-life period drama at Derby Gaol. A book of Irish family memoirs, and another local community book.
Published by Harry Riley on 1st August 2018" Communities of the Erewash valley Times past and Present. author Harry Riley and researcher Brian Fretwell. ISBN 978-1544179711
And now, just re-released in Spring of 2018, Sins of the Father, unabridged 11 hour Audible narration by accomplished New York theatre actor: Jonathan Dauermann, who has appeared as Leonato in 'Much Ado About Nothing', Prospero in 'The Tempest' and the Stage Manager in Our Town.' Jonathan is now engaged in a number of other forthcoming projects, and Harry is justly proud of their joint collaboration, so much so that he has offered Jonathan first refusal to narrate 'The Lord of Castle Ballantine' paperback novel-sequel to Sins of the father and again set in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. Harry only wishes he could speak English half as well as Jonathan's Received Pronunciation.
Harry enjoys writing mystery novels and short stories, particularly with a twist in the tail and often with a suggestion of ghostly intervention. He enjoys gardening, touring northumberland and the Scottish Borders and reading the classics: John Buchan, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens and Nigel Tranter, to name but a few.
One reader might consider Harry Riley relies on coincidences for his mystery plotting and this could be true, but another reader might wonder if some outside force preordains our actions, leading us to make choices that can lead to success, happiness or tragedy. The author thinks that too often we give way to conceit and bigotry, or as a famous lady writer might once have put it-to: Pride and Prejudice.
Harry Riley has been a member of writing group: Eastwood Writers Group and still keeps in touch. He is regularly on Twitter and facebook and is a blogger on Plus Google. He has eddited a community magazine, and written a monthly column for a local newspaper.
Being a founder member of Eastwood Booktown Development Group (EBDG) Harry is actively seeking ways to promote literacy and particularly the love of books amongst our younger generation. We should all appreciate the value of books, but this is not so. One elderly member of a writing group recently told him, with no hint of shame at all, that he'd never read a book since he left school at fifteen. Harry asks how can you write if you do not read?
Harry formed a new literacy Group: Eastwood Chapter and Verse and is becoming more involved in poetry, following worldwide interest in his poem for Armistice Day: 'Remember Me' (The voice of the dead) and another war poem for a culture magazine called: 'Let loose the dogs of war', concerning the ongoing conflict in Gaza and the Middle East.
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