PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Born in Poole, Dorset, in 1965, Sedley Proctor grew up in London and was educated in Winchester and Nottingham. In the 1990s, he worked in fringe theatre and was involved in productions of Macbeth and Bertolt Brecht's In the Jungle of Cities. His own play, Salt Lake Psycho about the notorious murderer, Gary Gilmore was put on at the now defunct Man in the Moon theatre in London, Chelsea. From the mid-nineties until 2013 he lived and worked as a teacher and translator in Southern Italy. In Italy he continued to experiment with his writing, devising an invented dialect, writing a blog satirizing the international politics of the early 2000s, collaborating on a screenplay with French writer, Claude Albanese, and performing his poetry in front of bemused locals and amused ex-pats. Apart from his own books, he writes under the aliases F.M. Frites and M.T. Sands. Tony was born in Winchester, Hampshire. His father was a businessman, author and publisher of books, and his mother a theatrical actress, giving him a life-long love of books, theatre and story-telling. A graduate of Edinburgh University, Tony has trodden the line between liberal arts and technology through spells in the music industry, television and digital innovation. Apart from his own books, he writes under the aliases F.M. Frites and M.T. Sands. F.M. Frites is a member of the Italian Order of Magicians and Illusionists. He grew in a small village in Sicily and attended the university of Sarcastica where he had a holiday job in the Hilton hotel. Known to his friends as Umberto, he trained with the Bengali Circus of Sandokan and his burning tigers. Now he travels the world performing his tricks and sleights of hand under the watchful eye of striped beasts.
