About A Boy’s Journey

My Life

A powerful three-part memoir of life, failure, and resilience.

Book One: A Boy’s Journey follows a tough childhood from an Essex council house to Australia and then New Zealand, shaped by hardship, isolation, and the search for identity. A shy, restless teenager struggles to find direction — until meeting Cynthia changes everything.

Book Two: Fly Like an Eagle - Fall Like a Stone begins with a reckless act at eighteen that leads to arrest and upheaval. Set in the Muldoon era, it traces careers, family life, and repeated attempts to escape, told with honesty and dark humour.

Book Three: Sailing Yarns to lofty Barns in this three-part memoir series by Michael Brown will be ready for pre-order soon and opens with a fresh start in the Bay of Islands and leads to 10 years of sailing the tropics. Alongside his third life partner, Mike chases the sun and stars across the South Pacific seeking solitude and calm, all the while, deep down, trying to figure out how to keep in touch with his adult children and growing grandchildren. Trading salt spray for soil, a lifestyle block in Motueka beckoned them back to land, to retire. That brought only hard work and further upheaval.