Bio

Michael P. Charlton is a published author with extensive experience in various areas, including writing, directing, editing, cover design, website design, electronic media, and production. 

Charlton’s works offer vivid narrative voices and experimental styles, which bring to life the psychological, philosophical, and sensory realities of his characters. His works offer a strong sense of place and personality, capturing both the humour and experience of personal transformation. Central themes include faith, suffering, social alienation, stream of consciousness, intellectual rigour, and deep questions into belief and belonging.

Motivated by a vision to transform British literature and film into high-quality content that is relatable and accessible to the general public, Charlton is currently building the Charlton Cooperative of Publishing and Production—his company comprising both a publishing house and a film production arm—designed to grant artists complete creative control.

KEY INFLUENCES ON CHARLTON’S WORK INCLUDE:

Writers: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz Kafka, Knut Hamsun, Herman Hesse, Michel Houellebecq, Haruki Murakami, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, Philip Ridley, Friedrich Nietzsche, Oswald Spengler, Martin Heidegger, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Leo Strauss, Carl Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, José Ortega y Gasset, Emil Cioran 

Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Coen Brothers, David Lynch, Darren Aronofsky, Lars von Trier, Roman Polanski, Terrence Malick, Akira Kurosawa, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel, Béla Tarr, Wong Kar-wai

For further information regarding published or forthcoming works, please feel free to get in touch.