Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

131: Malcolm Dixon

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My guest this week is Malcolm Dixon, Head of Quality Assurance at the University of Kent who has just published his first novel, The Little House on Everywhere Street. We learn writing fiction is more indicative of who Malcolm is than his day job, and he tells me why good writing is an exercise in misdirection. Malcolm has written short stories in the past, and his novel is about a house with doors that lead on to different cities. It’s all about what makes a happy family, in which the family members have misadventures and go missing in time. He grew up in Liverpool in a different time when it was a deprived city, and Malcolm reveals that he has a prodigious memory and can remember the great Winter of 1963 and going to see the Beatles in 1965, as well as being able to remember learning to walk. He would listen to the charts on a Tuesday lunchtime and to football matches on the radio. Malcolm did his first degree in Sunderland and went to graduate school at the University of Minnesota on a sports scho