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Gourd, Roger

Roger Gourd lives in North London.  After years of teaching English and Film he is delighted at last to have the freedom and time to read and write what he likes.

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On the Beach 

Roger Gourd on the novels of Leo Walmsley

I first became aware of Leo Walmsley at the age of 11, when my brother introduced me to his novel Foreigners (1935), which I read with tremendous enjoyment. Surprisingly one of the boys in my brother’s class revealed that he actually knew Walmsley. He was a boarder and his home was in the Cornish town of Fowey. Walmsley, he said, lived a bohemian writer’s existence in a hut on a beach near the town. A cheap second-hand Penguin edition of Foreigners was duly taken home by my brother’s friend and came back after the school holidays signed by the author.

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