Colin Shindler

In the aftermath of the Second World War, over two million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed services. Some were sent abroad and watched their friends die in combat. Others remained in barracks and painted coal white. But despite delivering such varied experiences, National Service...

Enthrallingly imagined, Conlon's poems blend Hollywood's reality and history with the lives of these two idols of the silent screen, their passion's brightest hour, their darkest fears. He makes Gilbert and Garbo live again!