Book Savvy Spotlight on Harry Riley
Bringing you exclusive interviews with authors featured in the Book Savvy Newsletter. Our Guest is Harry Riley * Enjoy the interview. Q1. Can you tell us about yourself and your book 'Captain Damnation & other strange tales'? Growing up during World War II, I was an only child, mother worked full time and there was no father to keep me in line. (He was a soldier, missing; presumed dead.) I'd never met him until he returned after the war from a Japanese prison camp. Then I was six years old and having a wonderful time, with lots of friends and many good aunts to fuss over me. I didn't have many books but enjoyed the radio and this fed my imagination so much that I've never fully recovered. Now after a lifetime in commercial printing, happily married with two grown up children and a granddaughter, I'm still addicted to all things theatrical and possess a childish sense of fun. Writing 'Captain Damnation & other strange tales' enabled me