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Something About Me and My Book:: My first book is about health and safety in the home - check it out on my website.
I have published several short stories available from Amazon to read on your Kindle.
For the family only two books One an autobiography of the first 32 years of my life and the other a genealogy of the Goulstone family back to 1460ad.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bryan V Goulstone, born in 1940 in Cambridge, England, was educated at Yardley
Court Preparatory School, Tonbridge, Kent, England from 1948 to 1953, and at Mill
Hill Public School, North London, England, to 1958.
He started out in his chosen career in Plastics Technology at the bottom as a
Laboratory Assistant in the Plastics Industry and rose through the ranks to become
involved in Innovative Research and Development Department, his ultimate aim. In
1971, because of the state of the British economy, the department was dissolved and
he migrated to New Zealand. Since migrating to New Zealand he had worked mainly
in the Plastics Industry, but for a short time became involved in Boat and Caravan
Manufacturing Industry.
Throughout his career he was involved closely with chemicals and was closely
concerned with safe handling and usage techniques in industry. Ironically, in spite of
his knowledge and caution, it was one of the lesser used chemicals, N-hexane a
neurotoxin, to which he was susceptible, which caused him to leave the industry due
to a gradually increasing paralysis (Chronic Inflammatory Demylinating
Polyneuropathy) produced by working in an environment in which this chemical was
present.
Since leaving the industry he has worked closely with the Combined Unions Safety
and Health Office in Christchurch, lecturing to companies on Chemical Safety, and
has connections with many of the environmentally active groups. He gives public
lectures on safety with chemicals and has published a book called Hidden Hazards:
Household Chemicals which is available on Amazon - and two safety pamphlets.
Having been so forcibly retired by circumstances he decided that he needed an
absorbing hobby so took a correspondence course in Creative Writing. He found that
he enjoys writing especially children’s stories, science fiction, short stories and
general fiction subjects but sometimes indulges himself with ventures into other areas
of the writing art. The fiction stories enable him to live in a fantasy world of his own
creation. This is, of course, pure escapism but he hopes you enjoy the fruits of his
imagination.
He lives beside a double volcano (hopefully extinct) on the Canterbury Plains in a
beautiful city called Christchurch in New Zealand, recently (September 2010) struck
by several massive earthquakes and is being rebuilt, with his wife and two cats. He
also has two daughters and a grandson.