he also wrote travel books, including "a traveller in turkey", "the independent traveller's guide to turkey" and "a dry ship to the mountains (down the volga and across the caucasus in my father's footsteps)", the book version of the children's tv series "the clifton house mystery" (produced by htv west for itv in 1978), and an appreciation of "marie lloyd and music hall" and a recollection of "soho in the fifties" (a time and a place in which he had found one of his few natural homes).