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I visit bookshops and libraries, schools and festivals, and anything else which looks like fun. Drop me a line if you’d like me to come to your event, and I’ll get back to you sharpish.

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Don’t Panic

Stories release us from the limitations of our ordinary lives. They process the complexities of existence, they entertain, they counsel and console. And sometimes, they save us. I was fourteen and the world was going to end. Four minutes, that was all we’d have, and then we’d be atomised: nothing between us and the bomb except a stupid understairs cupboard or a stupid kitchen table. Every time the Soviet Union and the States went head to head over Afghanistan, say, or Nicaragua, it meant High Wycombe [...]