And he wrote one novel - Soccer Thug under the pseudonym Frank Clegg. Wood also created another character/pseudonym in 1974 - Oliver Grape - a sexually frustrated 14-year-old whose adventures ran to three volumes. The first was stewardess Penny Sutton whose series of five novels began in 1973 with The Stewardesses. Rosie Dixon was his second female character/pseudonym. These books were so popular that, in 1974, Wood invented a new characer/pseudonym - Rosie Dixon - which he used for a series of nine novels, beginning with Confessions of a Night Nurse and finishing with Rosie Dixon, Barmaid in 1977. In each book, Timmy would relate his misadventures in a new occupation, often using his own eccentric terms as well as traditional Cockney rhyming slag. Timothy Lea was the hero of, and Wood's pseudonym for, a series of nineteen bawdy comic novels beginning with Confessions of a Window Cleaner in 1971 and finishing with Confessions from a Haunted House in 1979. This is when he came up with the idea of a series of books which combined his own experience of doing manual jobs as a youth with the mythology of the randy window cleaner. He wanted an idea that would be profitable enough to allow him to write full-time. Wood felt trapped by the expectation that he would produce more serious novels like his first two. The paperback rights to the first of these books were picked up by Sphere. His first, Make It Happen to Me, was inspired by his time in Africa, and his second, 'Terrible Hard,' Says Alice, by his military service in Cyprus.

He used the long daily commute to London from his home in Royston to write books. In the late sixties, Wood was working as an advertising executive.

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.Ĭhristopher Wood graduated from Cambridge with degrees in economics and law before doing military service in Cyprus and Africa.

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