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Currently reading:
TS Eliot - Four Quartets
Ted Hughes - Crow
Ronald Firbank - The Flower Beneath the Foot
Primo Levi - Il Sistema Periodico
James Clear - Die 1% - Methode
Currently watching:
Undersun Fitness - Band Resistance Exs You Tube
Bird - Yoga
Currently Listening to:
Hawkwind - There Is No Space For Us
Biog
Alex Coombs was born in Lambeth in 1961. He grew up in Bucks in the Chilterns near High Wycombe and went to school in Marlow.
He attended Oxford (St Peter's College) then Edinburgh University where he studied Arabic and Islamic History. He has lived and worked in the Middle East and London. He is also a qualified chef and has cooked in a variety of kitchens, restaurants, hotels and a conference centre. He currently lives in Bucks and Edinburgh.
About the author :
Hobbies: learning French, German and Italian.
Likes dogs.
Favourite books: The Tao Te Ching, The Execution of Justice by Durrenmatt, Labyrinths by Borges, The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit.
Is a qualified chef and was once sous-chef in an award-winning gastropub.
Favourite drink is tea ( black, no sugar), Kombucha
Favourite band: Hawkwind ever since seeing them at the Roundhouse back in the mid-seventies.
Likes boxing, yoga, gym, running, calisthenics.
Likes art/ art galleries
Eats out, likes fine dining
