Welcome. If you’ve found your way here, you’re already travelling the long road — the one that bends, doubles back, disappears into mist, and reappears when you least expect it.
The road has opened. Both journeys are now available in bookshops across the UK, the US, and beyond.
Start Here
If you're new to this place, begin with a short orientation — a quiet threshold into the two books and the road that runs between them.
The diptych follows two mirrored journeys — one through a world beginning to crack, and one through the hidden structure beneath it. Together they form a single road taken from opposite directions.
The Road Diptych — Two Literary Autofiction Novels
“An excellent read, it catches the zeitgeist of the times.”
— Reader feedback
The Road to Now Here and The Road to Every Where
Two movements of the same journey — one capturing the raw immediacy of youth, the other answering with the quieter resonance of memory. One road ends where the other begins; one story-shape carries what the other could not yet say.
Together they form a single arc across the boundary zone where friendship, consequence, and the impossible meet — where the self that lived and the self that remembers keep leaving each other lights along the road.
The Two Roads
Two movements of the same journey — one rooted in immediacy, the other shaped by memory. Choose a direction.
“An enjoyable, gentle, well‑written mystical story. The writing brings the mysterious coast of Cornwall vividly to life, and the journey of the two friends is warm, absorbing and beautifully told. I read it in one sitting.”
"Both books are well written and amusing in parts - books about friendship. Recommended to anyone who ever wonders about life and what will happen on their journey through it."
— Reader feedback
The physical transcripts of the journeys are bound in two volumes.
About JD Noone
Little is known about JD Noone, and that is intentional.
Noone writes from the quiet margins — the places where memory bends, where roads remember, and where the past still whispers if you stand still long enough.
The author owes a profound debt to Professor Stephen Westaby, whose skill and compassion returned Noone to the road more than once. Professor Westaby’s books are warmly recommended to anyone drawn to the art, courage, and humanity of cardiac surgery.
Beyond this, Noone offers no further biography. The road, after all, is the real story.
There is, however, another road: a technical one.
Access JD Noone's Leather-Bound Notebook
Name the three travelling companions who appear in The Road to Now Here and The Road to Every Where.