Nigel Quiney: 4 books

Book cover of Confessions of a Cock-Eyed Optimist
by Nigel Quiney
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014

This volume continues to explore the life of Nigel Quiney during the decade of the nineteen-seventies. Both his companies - Nigel Quiney Designs, and Ridley Quiney & Co Ltd - are successful and expanding. By then the decade of the 'sixties and Swinging London was maturing and London had become an extremely...
Book cover of More Cock-Eyed Optimism
by Nigel Quiney
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014

This frank and honest memoir follows the life of Nigel Quiney aged twenty-one returning to London from the USA. He re-joins the family business of paper importers Ridley Quiney & Co. and leaves home. The new decade of the 'sixties is an exciting time and gay life is beginning to be more interesting,...
Book cover of Conclusions of a Cock-Eyed Optimist

Conclusions of a Cock-Eyed Optimist

This is the fourth and final memoir of Nigel Quiney

by Nigel Quiney
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016

This is the continuing story of the life and times of Nigel Quiney. The previous three volumes dealt with his life living in London from 1939, the war years, discovering he was gay in his teens and the start of traveling. They dealt with his business life and his searching for love and adventure in London...
Book cover of A Cock-Eyed Optimist

A Cock-Eyed Optimist

An intimate memoir of a gay film fan born in 1939 in South London

by Nigel Quiney
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014

This unusually frank and honest memoir deals with the life of Nigel Quiney from his earliest memories of living through the blitz of London in WWII, to when he was twenty-one and boarded the Queen Elizabeth believing he was emigrating to the USA. His experiences there and travelling coast-to-coast are...
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