OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF TONY LEVY PUBLISHED AUTHOR
Writer. Author. Thinker. Storyteller.
Welcome to my website. As a professional Author, I aim to create a better understanding of the world and our place in it — a mission which has cast me in many different roles: author, artist, and creative innovator. Read some of my work below, ranging from published articles and books to more informal blog posts.
BIO
Storyteller at Heart
I am a 69 year-old cancer survivor originally from Tottenham.
A family man and former prison officer. After spending 25 years in the UK’s prison service, and having become increasingly disillusioned with stifling modern prison service politics and practices, in 2008 I took my pension pot and ran, moving to Spain to spend my early retirement in the sun. I wrote my first book an autobiography A Turnkey or Not? is about my prison service life.
My wife and I, temporarily moved back to the UK due to the economic climate, at the time. And I returned to working life.
I completed a second book all about working at a major UK airport as a security officer, based on true facts it is an observational look at how staff, passengers and management treat being subject to modern airport security, at Heathrow Airport Terminal 5.
This book El Dorado? No! Heathrow Airport is a continuation where my first book finished and revels the truth about how we all behave when faced with airport security the rudeness and the language directed at security staff by passengers and celebrities will amaze you and bemuse you.
These two book have inevitably led to a third book making them into a trilogy of my quest to find my personal El Dorado.
The third book will be about real people too and my experience of living on an ex pat community in Spain.
This too will be a great read and written from my heart, but will mean I will have to move for my own safety after revealing the behaviour of my fellow Brits abroad.
However before this book can be completed I have written a prequel to all three books and is about when I was a driving instructor in Central London back in the early 1980's
Pitched somewhere between the old English classic carry-on films and a series of sexy films called Confessions of... It is a humorous memoir of my time as a driving instructor; I reveal the stories of what can happen on a driving lesson, the offers of sexual favours and the actual driving routes I used all around the famous and historic landmarks of London.
My books are all humorous memoirs hopefully in the style of Terry Pratchett They should appeal to anybody who likes anecdotal tales, I have tried to write in the style that would make you believe you are in a restaurant and I am with you just recounted episodes of my life or in a pub having a drink with friends, and I’m relating anecdotal stories about my life to you.
The Road to ‘L’ is an eye-opening poignant and often hilarious romp through my years as a professional driving instructor in Central London back in the early 1980s. I reveal people’s behaviour, conversations and downright dangerous things that happened to me during their lessons and their time learning to drive in my tuition car.
I reveal the amazing tales of some of the things that could have come straight out of a Bond movie, the inappropriate offers of sex, and you will meet the amazing sister Mary Clara and her meeting with one of the famous Beatles back in the day. Travel throughout London and all the amazing sites this city offers and all on a driving lesson, or be part of being bombed twice in one day on two separate lessons, by the IRA.
Learn about the Falkland Islands war, from the perspective of both sides.
My book is a journey through the eyes of a professional driving instructor that will amaze you and also amuse you. It gives you a chronological history of the world events that affected London during this period, and of course about learning to drive a car. But in reality, the book is about people and how they can reveal so much about themselves whilst in the company of their driving instructor. With some amazing stories, and some scary situations, but above all humour.
The Road to "L" is my first self published book and is now available on Amazon
I am also working on a children's book all about four stray kittens that arrived on our doorstep after some tremendous storms. Homeless, hungry and in need of help these cats have changed our lives and I felt compelled to write their story
I hope you read and enjoy all my books
THE ROAD TO 'L'
I’ve been working on this latest release for quite some time now, and can’t wait for you to read it. This book first started out as an idea to supplement the trilogy I was working on, but soon turned into a fascinating undertaking which I couldn’t stop thinking about or writing.
This book is awaiting release and I hope it will be out very shortly
ABOUT ME
My Bio
Me a writer? You've got to be joking alright so I won a writing competition back in 1967 when I was a fifteen year old boy. It was a competition in my local free paper to write about my favorite footballer of my local team. Not excactly Charles Dickens or Shakespeare but from small steps......
I much later in life won another writing competition this time to win an entry into the London Marathon of 1991 great reward I know but a run I really wanted to be part of.
My real writing career started up in 2011 when I got my first big break. My first book A Turnkey or Not? was written and published as a one off Autobiography
Since then, I’ve never looked back and have been improving my writing techniques and developing a unique literary style. Read on to learn more about my work and feel free to contact me. I’d love to hear from you.