Bars & Stars
Memoir
A memoir of the bars Wilton Morley owned and the stars he encountered during his years in theatre. Family memories, celebrity encounters and photographs trace a life spanning England, Australia and Florida.
The collection
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Novels, memoirs and short stories by Wilton Morley.
Bit Parts
Short Stories
Forty short stories in which small roles become the centre of the story. The collection opens with an airport waitress serving Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper before their final flight.
Kerosene
Novel
Two trials, seventy years apart, ignite a small Tennessee town.
Middle Class Fantasies
Theatrical Memoir
A theatrical memoir of producing plays, running a pub and navigating the personalities behind the curtain. It opens in Australia in 1986, as Wilton Morley prepares for the arrival of Rex Harrison.
Tehrun
Novel
A hard-drinking British used-car dealer and a reclusive former Hollywood child star make unlikely participants in a revolution. Set against the upheaval of 1978, Tehrun brings Ronnie Scott Dodd and Deanna Durbin into an unexpected story.
The Last Gypsy
Historical Fiction
A novel of survival and revenge in the shadow of the Holocaust, inspired by a family caravan and a rumoured hunt for missing Nazis. Wilton Morley combines fact, fiction and rumour to tell the story of one of history’s rough diamonds.
The Shelterers
Historical Fiction
A novel that opens in Paris in April 1940, with Peggy Guggenheim collecting art as war approaches. An author’s note recalls Wilton Morley’s encounter with Samuel Beckett in a London theatre.
Winding Back
Short Stories
Fourteen stories that move between past and present, drawing on theatre, travel, family history and newspaper reports. Real encounters become starting points for fiction in a collection shaped by memory and the passage of time.
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