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News & Events

March 2010

Today I received the advance copy of my next book. The moment when you get to hold a new book in your hand for the very first time is always an exciting one, but it's a bit scary, too. All those hours of writing and rewriting and editing have finally resulted in a real book - a book that other people are going to read. That's the scary bit.

This book is already having its very first reading from someone in our household. So far the first reader is up to pg 256, and the second reader is impatiently waiting to take over.

The advance copy comes out several months before the book is released in bookshops, so this one will be on sale from June. I'll have more details about it soon on my Books page, although if you go there now, you can find out what the title is. For now, I'll just say that the cover looks - wonderful.

I'm working on a few other projects at the moment, including a short history of a local medical centre. This has involved interviewing a number of people who worked there when it was founded, back in the 1960s. There are some fascinating (and often very funny) stories of what medicine was like fifty years ago, as well as stories from someone who grew up in that house in the 1950s, before it was sold and became the medical centre. The booklet is being launched soon, to coincide with opening an extension that has just been built.