Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook

Mario Petrucci

Doctor Spotlight

Peter Kenny

March 31, 2021

I don’t know exactly where I first heard the term ‘Doctor Spotlight’ to describe the way that being in the spotlight can momentarily conceal, for example, the terrible hangover or malaise you might be experiencing. In the early nineties I was knocked off my bicycle one morning cycling down Chiswick High Road, and sustained quite…

a writer’s life, Autobiographical, Blowing my own trumpet, Fiction, Short Stories, Theatre

Doctor Spotlight, Horla, Mario Petrucci, Matthew G. Rees, Rosemary Norman
A surfeit of locusts

Peter Kenny

June 21, 2010

The publication of A Guernsey Double is imminent. I have been experiencing a weird kind of anti-natal anxiety. I know Richard went through the same thing a few days ago. Not at all what I expected to feel. It’s a kind of vulnerability I suppose. I asked an old friend Mario Petrucci, who has had…

A Guernsey Double, Mario Petrucci, Richard Fleming