New - Greek to Uncle Raymond

Life with Uncle Raymond is never straightforward, so when he generously takes his two nephews on a trip to Greece and Cyprus, it is unsurprising that things soon become complicated. Has Uncle Raymond's tendency to make much about very little put lives at risk?

Drawing on his own experience of visiting Greece as a young man, and of later living and working in Cyprus, Paul Griffin weaves a take of love , confusion and coincidence in countries that he knew and loved. 

This is Paul's second and last Uncle Raymond book. The first was a collection of short stories - A Degree of Uncle Raymond - which introduced the sage. This is a full-length novel.

Greek to Uncle Raymond is published privately by Lyon and Lamb, and is available for £10 from www.lulu/shop

New - A Slippery Place

When Maurice Elder returns to Cyprus, where he once taught, he uncovers a network of connections from the time of conflict that had been carefully tidied away. His well-meaning desire to uncover the past unwittingly leads him and others into danger as the truth emerges.

In A Slippery Place, Paul Griffin uses his knowledge and understanding of the recent history of Cyprus to expose some of the difficulties of reconciliation after conflict.

A Slippery Place is published privately by Lyon and Lamb, and is available for £10 from www.lulu/shop

New - A Noisy Isle

Cyprus 1956, and the British Empire is struggling to its inevitable conclusion. Terrorism is in full swing, and the island is full of British troops and the occasional sound of gunfire. Everyone feels threatened.

In the middle of this, a 33-year old veteran of WWII with a young family finds himself learning how to be a headmaster of a multi-cultural school.

Paul Griffin's first-hand account of his time as headmaster has all his usual wit accompanied by perceptive comments on the people and the 'Situation'.

A Noisy Isle is published privately by Lyon and Lamb, and is available for £10 from www.lulu/shop

New - A Degree of Uncle Raymond

It is a fine thing to have an uncle, but there are uncles and uncles. Peter Copley is attempting to study English at Cambridge University but his wife's uncle is convinced that his education needs to cover a much wider curriculum. Unfortunately, Uncle Raymond is prone to enthusiasms, some of which prove a problem for an impressionable young man.

The latest offering from the pen of Paul Griffin is a series of witty short stories - a fictional sequence in twelve episodes - introducing the irrepressible Uncle Raymond.

A Degree of Uncle Raymond is published privately by Lyon and Lamb, and is available for £10 from www.lulu/shop

New - The Lost Battalion

From the desolate hills of the North West Frontier of India to the steaming jungles of central India and Burma, Paul Griffin's latest book recounts the story of his wartime service 1940-1945.

The Battalion of the title was the 3rd/6th Gurkhas who, after years of service in the relative peace of the Khyber Pass, joined the Chindit operations designed to fight behind enemy lines in Burma. Illness prevented Paul from joining them and he was seconded to Chindit HQ from where he had a good view of the whole operation.

Drafted into the Broadway stronghold to assist the evacuation, he describes the organised chaos of the fly-out: an exercise which coloured his view of mules for life.

The battalion fought on, long after its planned period of front line action, being whittled away by enemy action and winning two Victoria Crosses in the process.

A final invasion of Malaya and Paul, then aged a mere 24, was demobbed to pursue his dream of reading English at Cambridge.

Published privately by Lyon and Lamb, The Lost Battalion is available for £10 from www.lulu.com/shop