Cuger Brant

CUGER BRANT was born in London, England. He is an experienced environmentalist and has been working in this field for the last 20 years. He and his family currently reside in the southern counties of England.I attended the old Lambeth Workhouse institution from the age of six years when it was known as (Woodvale Children's Home).Later both I, together with three of my brothers were later sent to 'Beechholme' in Banstead, Surrey. It was a Village type children's home with its own Church, School, and Infirmary. The houses were spaced along an avenue of trees, each named after a tree or bush. Each house had its 'House Parents' who were responsible for approximately 14 children of both sexes.It was here that I was taught the basic survival skills such as cooking, sowing, cleaning and, with kindness and regular exercise, had a healthy outlook on life.This experience left me with a keen sense of fairness, justice and the consequence of people's actions both good and bad, on others.Looking back, the one thing I have realised from my childhood years is that, love, patience and fair play are the building blocks of good character and moral values.I write 'WHAT IF?' stories. I write them to stretch your imagination and your awareness. I hope they give you pleasure, food for thought and change your perception about you, your world, and your safe little place in it.My writing style and method may seem different to you. I have read (in numerous cases, tried to read) so many books, only to be sent to sleep or put off by over descriptive meandering that, when you stand back and analyse, really have nothing to do with the story or the plot, rather just to do with the author's imaginings of his literal, descriptive skills, even to do with 'bulking' a book out a bit. Both I and other avid readers I know personally, tend to get very vexed with these 'over-stretched books' telling you nothing and just wasting your time and insulting your intelligence (not to mention your pocket).My philosophy is: if you give a man who can read music a Stradivarius, it doesn't mean that you will get a good tune. But, if that man, has a seed of inspiration to explore, and a need to express his inspiration through his music, then you have something worth listening to.Writing is always an opportunity to educate the reader. It is also for me, personally, an art of imagination, an opportunity for expression and concepts.I believe it is how the imagination and a few chosen words are used to capture an idea, then to project that idea to a reader, to get an inquisitive mind working and in doing so, getting that inquisitive mind to realise a concept, an idea, and stop that mind putting down an unread book. If I have done just that, then I have created something!I sincerely hope if you read my books, they were not what you were expecting.Books to date:A Very Dirty Business, (Dirty Bomb terrorist attack).Something Wicked This Way Comes, (what if).End Game, (Global Warming, what you do NOT know).Cuger.