The good news is that the staff in Pret a Manger have finally learned to understand what I mean when I say ‘Bakewell’. They’ve been selling Bakewell tarts for over a year now, but – until today – whenever I asked for one the person serving me (in my Pret, they’re almost exclusively girls from South America) […]
Read more...On the 19th of May, I launched the Kindle edition of Perpetual Astonishment with an apologetic message on Facebook. On the 1st of June, I celebrated the paperback launch with an embarrassed line on Facebook. Since then, I have sold seven paperback copies and sixteen Kindle copies. I’ve also had two of my five Kindle […]
Read more...I’ve been made ridiculously happy this afternoon by someone I don’t know giving Perpetual Astonishment a five-star review on Amazon. It has increased my determination to rate every book I like from now on: I had never realised the huge pleasure it gives. It is at least as nice as getting that Lego spaceship when […]
Read more...The Kindle edition of my book is free today (Sunday the 10th of June), so why not download it, read it, give it a five-star Amazon review, then buy copies of the paperback for your extended family, friends, workmates and acquaintances? Or just download it.
Read more...Over the last few days there has been a mini-epidemic of people coming to this site because they Googled “What looks like a bunch of bananas but isn’t?” (WordPress tells me some of the search terms people use to come here – and they were all getting to a piece of flim-flam I wrote called […]
Read more...I’ve been thinking about doing some more illustrations for the day dividers inside the book. This is the first…
Read more...I’ve just signed up with PayPal so that I can sell the book from my website. This means that I can send signed copies and what-not. (You also get a free bookmark with every copy – imagine.) Just click ‘Buy the book‘ at the top of the page. The book is also available from Amazon, […]
Read more...At Tower Bridge The surly-polite crowd With flags and anoraks With bunting and occasional grins Entirely hides the fleet A whispered fanfare Rumours of the Queen The bitter, hard-driving June rain This is Britain
Read more...My book has been reviewed by Sarah Castell (an improviser with Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, among much else) on Amazon and on her lovely blog, here: http://sarahcastell.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/review-of-a-funny-book-which-reminds-us-all-why-we-should-all-be-more-astonished/ It’s pretty much exactly how I hoped people would respond to the book: This book is, in a way, a manifesto for us all to recapture our childlike state […]
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