Painting of Jeff by South African artist Arlene Amaler-Raviv. 1994. Oil on paper.  

Jeff is introduced as an author who ‘brings a unique international accent to his writing’ and ‘has developed a unique voice that cannot be categorized.'

Its sister bookshop is down the hill in Crouch End.

Perhaps the closest fictional town to my novel’s Goodmews is Smallville, home of Superboy/Superman. (This is the Smallville of the 40’s and 50’s Superman comics, not as depicted in later TV programmes.) Smallville, like Goodmews, was an idyllic, small, isolated American town, with friendly residents, locally owned businesses and one newspaper.

Meet the Authors

Rough sketch for map of Goodmews to come.

The audience rapt.

Amidst the jumble of notices at Queen’s Wood Café in Muswell Hill, north London.

Meet & Greet Author:  #255

Jeff Probst

Your Name: Jeff Probst

Genre(s) of your work: Literary Fiction

Titles/Year of Published Work(s):

When the Moon was White, 2022

Bio:

I am American and have lived in London since 1990 with my South African wife.

Jobs have included selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door in Los Angeles, picking grapefruit on a kibbutz in Israel, and teaching literacy to black domestic workers in Johannesburg.

I have been pu…

In the shop briefly. 

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