Michael Gannon is a retired trade journalist, living in Fulham. Born in Hammersmith, he has had a number of plays performed at his local fringe theatre. Gannon is currently writing a sequel to Travails with Thomas: To Russia with Love. This is concerning a trip with Thomas to the Balkans in 1989, immediately prior to the collapse of the communist regimes there.
Among his interests are theatre, classical music, current affairs and an undying support of Fulham FC.
It’s the 1980s in Thatcher’s Britain. Two friends decide to go on a coach trip to the Soviet Union to see what life is really like on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Thomas is an inhibited civil servant, warned by his superiors that he could be a victim of a honey trap by a Russian blonde an...
