The Mistaken Letter – published April 2026 – is my fourth published novel. Available Amazon, Waterstones and other good bookstores.
London Architect Joe Albion receives a letter from Sandra, the receptionist.
It is from America and addressed to a Joe A. He takes it – unaware it was meant for someone else.
The letter is from Mary J. – a female prisoner held in a state penitentiary.
Joe is intrigued and replies – the transatlantic correspondence begins.
Despite his success in business and the material trappings – something is missing from his life.
He finds solace in Mary J. – someone who understands and is supportive – they connect.
With his free-spirited friend Stephan, he travels to Texas to meet her in person.
If only he didn’t miss her last letter…
Football – Crime – Art – Soundtrack… – published October 2025 – is my third published novel. Available Amazon, Waterstones and other good bookstores.
An ancient Daoist painting goes missing from a London gallery. Steven Vincent took a da Vinci piece twenty years previous – this time he is set up. He suspects a sophisticated Italian gang producing counterfeit art and artefacts for a wealthy clientele.
With three childhood friends he travels from London to Turin – via Marseille and Nice.
Along the way football, music, art, photography and obsession are the themes. A meeting with the Torino ultras is a highlight.
It’s like the old times – but no one is to be trusted…
An Italian Job meets On the Road.
Cheap Perfume and Dirty Diesel – published May 2025. Available Amazon, Waterstones and other good bookstores.
is a Kerouac/Potter book about a man fulfilling a childhood dream by joining a fair for three weeks. He travels around the southwest of England building relationships with the public and workers along the way – thrills and spills along the way.
The Silent River – published on June 2024. Available Amazon, Waterstones and other good bookstores.
It is a thriller set in London, Moscow and Cairo.
Having lived in the same flat behind a busy north London underground station with a Premier League football club close by for forty years – the content is always there.
Travels have taken me to India, north and west Africa, Egypt, North America, several countries and cities in Europe.
Following my football club – Oxford United – have taken me to many towns and cities around the U.K – a hundred in total.
Burroughs, Coelho and Kerouac are three of my favourite writers.
Hi everyone and welcome to a nice sunny evening in north London. Well, my fourth book was published last Friday by New Generation Publishing. The Mistaken Letter is a story about a successful Kings Cross based architect Joe Albion. One day his receptionist hands him a letter from America addressed to a Joe A. Joe takes it unaware there is a Joe Althorne in the building. It’s from Mary J. a lady incarcerated in a U.S jail. Joe replies and a transatlantic correspondence follows. They connect and Joe begins to distant from his model girlfriend whose career is taking off. With his long time friend Stephan – who spends his time breeding falcons and smoking dope in Sussex – he decides to travel to visit Mary J. After years of being the man about town Joe craves the family life: could this be it? Only one problem – Mary J. hasn’t told him she’s on death row…
As for Oxford United – we have two games to get the six points and hope Blackburn Rovers slip up….
My name is Christopher C. Curtis. I am a writer with two books published and ready to buy. The writing is fiction. My novels are influenced by my travels, music and general life experiences, especially the people I’ve met along the way. As Kerouac once said: “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn,burn, burn“. – On The Road.
The process started in 1963 when I landed in Liverpool docks with my mother and brother. The unconventional travelling stayed with me. I’ve travelled around India on lets say very limited resources – the full moon parties were great though. Cycled around the South of France and visited most European cities on shoestring budgets. The highlight was travelling from Minneapolis to Miami in 1985. What a journey. Carrying weed in the boot, staying at cheap motels and stopping for stray hitchhikers – sorry Jack, but you ain’t got nothing on that journey.
The first book titled The 25th of October was self-published in 2018. The second titled When You Fall in Love With a Dying Woman was published by an independent publisher in 2021. The latter is available from Waterstones, Foyles as well as Amazon.
The 25th of October is about art fraud. Four London friends follow a trail to an aristocratic Italian art ring based in Turin. Football, The House of Savoy are featured.
When You Fall in Love With a Dying Woman is about a London architect who mistakenly receives a letter from a lady in jail in the the U.S. They correspond and feelings emerge. He arranges to visit her, only she hasn’t told him she’s on death row.
Christopher C. Curtis 