Profile: Leslie Wilkie

About This Author

After spending the first fifteen years of his working life travelling the world as a seagoing Radio Officer Les Wilkie moved into the field of further education. Starting as a lecturer in Kingston-upon-Hull this new role took him to Papua New Guines, Fiji, Vanuatu and the Sultanate of Oman. Writing has always been an ambition and to date has resulted in the publication of novels and the publication and broadcast of short stories and poetry.

This Author's Books

This collection of largely humourous rhyming verse covers subjects as seen through the eyes of a well travelled ex seafarer/teacher and expatriate. Subjects as varied as the channel tunnel, school holidays and Papua New Guinea sit side by side with seafar....
ISBN: 9781908895271
Published: 18 January 2012
...To my surprise I found Captain Fitzroy's fully loaded handgun wrapped in an old towel - Jim was riding shotgun! It made me wonder if I was in danger. Sergeant Cooper had advised me to watch my back... ...He spent Christmas Eve amongst a thousand Americ....
ISBN: 9781786105547
Published: 21 December 2015
...To my surprise I found Captain Fitzroy's fully loaded handgun wrapped in an old towel - Jim was riding shotgun! It made me wonder if I was in danger. Sergeant Cooper had advised me to watch my back... ...He spent Christmas Eve amongst a thousand Americ....
ISBN: 9781782996330
Published: 26 June 2013