Mike Beránek
proofreader copy editor and Writer in West Drayton
I'm a California-born Quaker, a communist & peace activist, and church volunteer.
A naturalised UK citizen, I was brought up in Yorkshire and attended a Quaker school in York with my two younger brothers Jeff and John. I completed a medical degree in 1994 at Southampton University. I specialised working in psychiatry until retiring early in the context of a long-standing diagnosis of bipolar disorder. My condition is under pretty good control now and I'm able to help support my local Quaker meeting, with Churches Together in Uxbridge, and since November 2024 have been a member of the Communist Party of Britain, and the CPB North London Branch.
I love watching, rating and reviewing over 300 movies a year, bible study, reading fiction and some fiction-writing, and I'm enthusiastic about art & music and especially 20th century architecture.
My old short fiction is on mikeberanek100.wordpress.com