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Broken Lunch

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I've led an eclectic life doing many different jobs.

I began writing aged ten when I had a short story published in the Catholic Times. 'Broken Lunch' is my first full length book. My other oeuvres include 'Secrets of Better Skiing', and many internet articles on subjects as diverse as 'arthritic remedies' and 'crane proximity sensors.'

I'm 70 and live near Liverpool in the UK, where I write, go rock climbing and occasionally escape to the Alps for skiing.

My Background

My Books

Secrets of Better Skiing

Ski technique is really quite simple. Forget the diagrams and contortions. Skiing is simply about mileage, fitness, attitude, and an ability to assess your surroundings.

Told with a sense of humour, Simon Dewhurst offers radical ski technique that is not often mentioned in ski instruction manuals. He has broken down the technical stuff and rebuilt it so the explanations become lucid and simple.

Simon Dewhurst has been a ski teacher for nearly fifty years and during this time has acquired a vast amount of knowledge about ski technique. He learnt his craft in Scandinavia, British Columbia and the European Alps, and he still teaches privately in France and Switzerland. He was a passable club racer, and in 1987 skied at over 108 mph in the French Cup in la Clusaz, France.

Broken Lunch

An intimate and fast moving memoir, sometimes side-splitting, recalling Simon Dewhurst's privileged and eccentric upbringing in an upper-class English family after the last war.

He has no time for misery and self-flagellation. Instead, the narrative glides seamlessly and predictably from one hilarious disaster to the next. His exploits as a soldier, ski teacher, film extra, actor and a cinema projectionist among other jobs, take us from London during the Swinging Sixties to Scandinavia, North America and finally to darkest Africa.

The ingredients for the best memoirs are many – his are blue, hilarious, and possibly worrying. This is a very funny memoir and Dewhurst writes easily with an incisive wit. He has no truck with political correctness. His style is light and airy with little moralizing about the meaning of life, but he is still capable of a good rant when writing about the state of the modern world.