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                            Isobel's Shadow
                                         South from La Mancha
                                                       A Novel
                                            by Tim Dalgleish
                      
Nick Rainer Reid is a poet. A modern-day young Werther. He has cut himself adrift.  In Tarifa - where lost souls reside - the southernmost point of Europe, he searches for meaning.
His letters and poems have been edited and annotated by the literary critic Geronimo Ortega Dalgoté. Having examined this final period of Reid’s life, the critic obliquely questions the mystery surrounding the poet’s death.
Reid’s words and Dalgoté’s notes follow the existential journey toward meaning for the artist. Along the way, Reid meets Isobel, a young Spanish woman, who casts a long shadow over all his philosophizing, and as another poet wrote, ‘between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.’
This is an evocative, literary, philosophical and romantic novel set in Spain at the turn of the twentieth century.

                            Desiderata
                       The Origins of an American Classic
                                                   by Tim Dalgleish

                        For the first time, the story behind the writing
                                    of ‘Desiderata’ beloved by millions.

The poem was first published in 1927, but its true origins, along with the life of its author, have largely been lost to literary history.
This account by actor and author Tim Dalgleish includes not only the story of ‘Desiderata’ but two additional, previously unpublished, chapters from a forthcoming biography of Max Ehrmann. This new material helps bring Max Ehrmann, the author of ‘Desiderata’, out of the shadows.
An underground classic, ‘Desiderata’ first gained wide popularity as ‘the peace poem’ during the counter-culture years of the 1960s. It was pinned to the walls of thousands of students across America and then the 1972 Les Crane recording of the poem sold millions.
Sylvia Plath thought ‘Desiderata’ ‘milk-and-honey to [the] weary spirit’, it helped sustain Morgan Freeman in the early years of his career, Richard Burton, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Leonard Nimoy, Ali McGraw, Tom Hiddleston, recorded inspirational versions, Johnny Depp’s back is even tattooed with it in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean.’
‘Desiderata’ been endlessly anthologized, used by columnists, psychologists, therapists, lifestyle gurus, political, business and religious leaders, sports personalities and artists. It has appeared in myriad cultural arenas: Ellen Terry’s dressing-room; Adlai Stevenson’s deathbed; the only recording of Jack London’s voice is his reading ‘Desiderata’; the controversial Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh made it his spiritual guide, while National Lampoon parodied it!  Pope John Paul II, Gene Roddenberry and Reggie Kray loved it.
Max Ehrmann, now a part of world culture, deserves a place in the ‘Golden Age of Indiana Literature’ that his friends, Theodore Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, James Whitcomb Riley, Lew Wallace and Gene Stratton Porter secured. This book is part of a campaign to elevate and restore this author’s rightful place in American literary history.

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The Trial of Oscar Wilde by Charles Grolleau
New Edition edited by Tim Dalgleish
Charles Grolleau (1867-1940), a French author and translator of Omar Khayam, edited and published anonymously 'The Trial of Oscar Wilde' (also titled 'The Shame of Oscar Wilde') in 1906, in Paris. Only 550 copies of this first edition were published. While Grolleau had some antipathy toward Wilde, he also saw the trials and sequent punishment Wilde had suffered for 'gross indecency' in 1895, as a tragedy. Grolleau’s work was not only one of the first on this subject to appear, however, it has also proved to be one of the clearest, most concise, and adroit.
This new edition provides extensive commentary on the literary figures, such as, Baudelaire, Swinburne, J.K. Huysmans, Mallarmé, Arthur Symons and Théophile Gautier, who formed Wilde's literary circle and, in some senses, underpinned his overconfidence in the shield of Art to protect him from the sword of social morality.
​Love is not a sin, whatever form it takes. Grolleau instinctively intuited that the hate and vengeance exacted by society at that time was hypocritical, or, at the least, too immediate and too brutal in its judgement and punishments. Returning to this contemporary account of such an infamous trial allows the modern reader a broader historical perspective. Grolleau’s words are, in fact, part of the history surrounding the immediate literary and social aftermath of Wilde’s death. The cultural legacy of Wilde’s life, and the manner of his death, would take many years and many biographies, films and literary studies to coagulate, but the blood was spilt in Grolleau’s lifetime and stained as readily in Wilde’s beloved France as it did in England.

Secret Armies by John L. Spivak
New Edition edited by Tim Dalgleish
The Rachel Maddow of his day, campaigning journalist, John L. Spivak, spent five years investigating the pre-war fascist penetration of America. His exposé of the Nazi spy networks, political intrigues and pro-fascist public figures and movements in the United States, Mexico and Central America was meticulous and mesmerising. Fascist governments abroad secretly funded, encouraged and influenced Americans, such as Catholic Priest, Father Coughlin the most popular political radio broadcaster in the country, to create distrust in the government, disseminate lies and ferment political division and hate, in ways that have clear parallels with today’s America.
Spivak shows how the influential Cliveden Set in Britain, and the Hooded Ones in France, were a symptom of the fascism quickly infecting the Americas. There was the rise of the Silver Shirts in the U.S. and the Gold Shirts in Mexico, Henry Ford’s antisemitism was being admired by Hitler, while Japanese secret agents were getting to know the military and naval capabilities of America in the Panama Canal Zone.
Spivak’s classic, thrilling book of reportage, was immediate and vital in its day, Unfortunately, the nightshades of fascism are appearing once again and his book still speaks to how ugly passions will trump rational thought if left unchecked.
This new edition includes an introduction, by playwright and author Tim Dalgleish, which places Spivak in the American tradition of campaigning journalists, such as Rachel Maddow and Amy Goodman. Dalgleish argues Donald Trump’s MAGA movement has adopted Nazi propaganda techniques. Newspaper articles from the period are included - which cover Spivak’s arrest for supposed libel against ‘radio priest’ Father Coughlin, the terrorist actions of the Christian Front and other Nazis - and reveal the historical precedent of what happens when the press are viewed as ‘the enemy of the people.’

​Film Work                 
                                    King of Crime
                            'More than your average crime film'
                                      -Film and TV Now-
I was the 'muscle' for eponymous Marcus King played by Mark Wingett (Dead Again, Quodrophenia, The Bill). Released in cinemas in 2018, also featured were Vas Blackwood (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) Claire King (Coronation Street) and Nicholas Brennan from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Finding Fatimah (2017) I had a brief role as Yameen in this 'Funny and heart-warming, hilarious look at the modern British Muslim dating scene' starring Danny Ashok (Four Lions), Nina Wadia (Bend it like Beckham, Eastenders).

I also featured in Imagine (2015) a short which recieved 1.6 million hits on youtube and received Special Mention at the Marbella International Film Festival.

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Over the years I have worked with diverse theatre companies such as  RAT, Volcano, Voices of the Holocaust and Carabosse and one of my favourite books is Playing Macbeth - An Actor's Journey into the role   which Reader's Favorite called 'A thrilling journey' and (with a big slice of hyperbole) 'Monumental' and (hopefully closer the mark) Amazon Audible USA  'Just plain excellent, beautiful language, Loved it''