A play based on Sandel, written, produced and directed by Glenn Chandler, was premiered at the Edinburgh Festival, 2013, and later played to highly appreciative audiences at Above the Stag in Vauxhall, London.
Angus Stewart was born in 1936, the son of John Innes Mackintosh
Stewart, the novelist and Oxford academic who wrote bestselling
crime fiction as Michael Innes.He was educated at Bryanston School
in Dorset, and later at Christ Church Oxford, loosely disguised as
St Cecilia’s in Sandel. His first published work was ‘The Stile’,
which appeared in a 1964 Faber anthology and won the Richard
Hillary Memorial Prize. His breakthrough came with Sandel, his
first novel, written in 1966-7 in the wake of the Wolfenden Report
on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution. In recent years, when the
novel fell out of print, it developed a cult following and
commanded a price of over a thousand pounds a copy on Amazon.
It is now known that Stewart filtered the human drama of the
piction through the perspective of autobiography. He wrote
pseudonymously about the central affair as his own in Underdogs:
Eighteen Victims of Society, edited by Philip Toynbee in 1961.
In 1968 Stewart moved to Tangier in Morocco. His experiences there
resulted in a second novel, Snow in Harvest (1969), soon to be
published by Pilot Productions, and a travel diary entitled
Tangier: A Writer’s Notebook, first published in 1977 and now
available in ebook form. A third novel, The Wind Cries All Ways,
which includes a startling description of the author’s
incarceration in a Tangier mental asylum, has never been published.
After his mother’s death in 1979 Stewart returned to live in
England, and died in Oxfordshire twenty years later.
'A controlled and beautifully written love story.' New Statesman 'A love which truly exists and is not despicable.' Sunday Telegraph
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