Jeff Hopkins

About the Author
Jeff Hopkins (1950) is a retired schoolteacher. He lives in Western Australia. As the drama master at a private boys’ school he wrote ten original musical plays and produced and directed them at the school.
In 1992, he researched and wrote a family history, 'Life’s Race Well Run', and after retiring in 2006 he has written eighteen novels, three factional biographies and a memoir.
• Artifice (2015)
• Gnarl (2015).
• The Spiv: The Robbie Sparrow Story (2015)
• Impressment: Managers, Actors and Impressed Boys (2015)
• Benedict Lovelace and the Travelling Show (2016)
• Reflections; A Story of Friendship (2016)
• Rocking Horse Rider (2016)
• The Hydrographer: The Clyde Steadman Story (2017)
• Lord Gnarl : A Sequel to Gnarl (2019)
• Handsome Jack: A Whizz-kid’s Story (2019).
• A Horse Called Signs: A Sequel to Handsome Jack (2020)
• Alaric Pinder Boor: A Life Reimagined (2020)
• Gnarl: Caliphs and Kings:Concluding the Gnarl Trilogy (2020)
• The Gavin Johns Story: A Belle beamish Investigation (2021)
• The Headmaster: Frederick Charles Faulkner's Story (2021)
• Creatively:A Memoir of Plays, Films, Musicals, Commentaries, and Books (2021)
• Resilience: The Story of Cameron and Rick - 1972 (2022)
• Surviving the Silence; the Benjamin Stabton Story 1819-1891 (2022)
• Directed by McCardle O'Hanlon: A Cinematic Story (2022)
• Released and Regained: A Sequel to Directed by McCardle O'Hanlon (2023)
•Adam & Benjamin: The Story of the Seal Island Band (2023)
• Landor: A Saga od Siblings, Schooling, Sparring, and Sinking (2023)

Jeff previously maintained he wrote entirely for pleasure, and to fill in the long summer months between football seasons. Recently he has admitted that he set himself the task of writing in a number of different genres as part of a three-year programme to learn about creative writing and self-publishing. He said it was like an undergraduate degree course for which there was a strict budget and work schedule.That three years has now stretched. It has since become clear that the whole experiment was one of the most interesting and absorbing things he had done in his life. He continues to write.

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Artifice: An Ingenious Expedient Trailer
Fiona Beaumont’s relationship is over, and a career in the art world has stalled. Her decision to change direction sees her interact with two generations from different families, the Mitchells and the Robertsons. Tim Robertson is a prodigious artistic talent. Jeremy Mitchell is a golden boy and through Caravaggio, his sexual dawning, desires, and denials, cause him to discover a different self.

Impressment Book Trailer
In 1597 Queen Elizabeth I signed a Royal warrant giving theatre managers Henry Evans, Nathaniel Giles and their deputy, James Robinson authority to ‘impress’ boys to be actors in the second Blackfriars Theatre. Impressment is a theatrical traverse through the final years of Elizabeth’s reign and the first part of the 17th century.

Interview With Jeff Hopkins
Jenny Mosher interviews Jeff Hopkins about his writing career so far.

Landor: A Saga of Siblings, Schooling, Sparring, and Sinking'
This is a visual blurb to introduce the book.

Released and Regained
'Released & Regained' A Sequel to 'Directed by McCardle O'Hanlon'

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