Writing
Books
The Hitchers of Oz
Tom & Simon Sykes
World famous actor Sam Neill and rap legend Chuck D rub shoulders with writers like JP Donleavy and Carmel Bird. Physicists, business leaders, publishers, political activists, soldiers, poets, athletes and comic book creators are brought together by their common experience of hitching a ride sometime in the past.
Since the '60s and '70s - the heyday of hitching - people have thumbed rides worldwide. Money never changes hands, but all manner of social transactions take place. These tales will open your eyes and take you back - of forward. Just when you think you've heard it all, turn the page. You'll discover you haven't!
>No Such Thing As A Free Ride? Travel anthology (Cassell, 2005) ISBN: 1844033821 Observer Travel Book of the Month & serialized in the London Times featuring Alastair Campbell, Sir Max Hastings, Doug Stanhope and Mike Leigh. Buy at Amazon.
True Sounds of Infamy novelette by Tom Sykes available in Triquorum 3
Super Fly-Tipper short story by Tom Sykes in Small Voices, Big Confessions international anthology published by Edit Red. Buy at Amazon.
Various short fiction available in magazines from: www.lighthousemediaone.co.uk
No Such Thing As A Free Ride? North American Edition to be published in Canada by Goose Lane 2008. 
Fog In Channel... essays on the UK's relationship with Europe featuring Tony Benn, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ralph Steadman and Bill Deedes.
John Bartlett - playwright, actor and folk singer
Patterns in the Sand: Songs by John Oke Bartlett (Book)
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