
Of the 12 books I've written so far, two have been published in full. I was 40 when Personal Delivery came out, while Looking For Enid appeared 10 years later. The call I got from David Bowie, an inspiration of my adolescence, congratulating me on Personal Delivery, just about balances the clutch of one-star reviews I've received on the Amazon site for my book on Enid Blyton, the wonder of my childhood. What next? A book on Evelyn Waugh's brittle and brilliant youth is in the pipeline. At least as far as I'm concerned it is. I've also got a book on the go about my mother, who has dementia and is in a care home. There is a blog on this at: http://www.saga.co.uk/health/carers/b... My ambition is to have three books in Amazon's top million sellers by the year 2020. No, dammit, four. Update: August 2011: Beautiful Books will publish 'EVELYN!' in September 2011. See their website which gives an insight into the contemporary publishing process. http://www.beautiful-books.co.uk EVELYN!, whose strapline is 'Rhapsody for an Obsessive Love', explores the love triangle between Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Gardner and John Heygate. Though there is another love triangle going on, involving Evelyn Waugh, his books and me. The 'Visiting Mabel' blog was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for blogs in 2011.