CAGED is the story of two brothers George and Geoff James. As teenagers the boys lives are thrown into turmoil, when, their free spirited mother walks out, leaving them with their ageing and rather straight-laced father Leslie. Geoff is the playboy brother, a bit of a rogue. He is confident and good looking. George is more the introvert and though he looks up to his brother, he also envies him. When George James is 14, he develops a huge crush on Natalie Parker, 'the most beautiful girl on the planet.' Unfortunately for George the feelings he holds for Natalie stay with him his entire life. Initially he is far too shy to tell her how much he cares for her. When his elder brother, starts dating Natalie, George is not surprisingly, a bit miffed. When he is asked to be best man at the wedding, George seriously begins to think there is no justice in the world There are many, laugh out loud moments in CAGED the brothers meet many memorable characters as they make their way through life: - Geoff, forever trouser led and struggling with his roving eye. Natalie, despairing that everyone she meets, except her lovely brother in law George, wants to sleep with her. George, fighting a life long battle with his feelings for Natalie Parker, of course he wants to sleep with her, he loves her As you read CAGED there will be extracts that make you laugh, extracts that make you cry and extracts, where you think, that's me ENJOY.........

Surfing is poetry. It is pure experience of the moment. Poetry attempts to capture that experience."A pioneering anthology of experiential verse and essays about riding waves first published in 1993 before surf books were in vogue. The second edition is physically enhanced and enriched, still all good stuff, worth the ring on your butt it will cause if you keep it in the bathroom."
--Steve Pezman, Publisher of The Surfer's Journal"From the solitude of being alone on the water at daybreak, to the exhilaration of confronting nature with nothing but a board, the entire surfing experience is captured through poems and short prose pieces."
--Joel Beers, Newport Daily Pilot"The thrill and dangers of surfing and the bonds between those who search out the perfect wave...are not the only issues explored in the new poetry."
--Robert Kinsler, Orange County Register