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Signed Copies Competition and Free eBooks at LondonCalling

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I’m starting the New Year with an excellent promotion courtesy of online culture magazine LondonCalling. Register with the LondonCalling website and you will receive a free A Calculated Life eBook at the end of the promotion on 19th January. And you’ll have the chance to win a signed copy of the paperback.

Here’s the Special Offers page on LondonCalling.

Last week, Tom Hunter interviewed me for LondonCalling and asked me some great questions about journalism, art and the creative impulse. I really enjoyed the interview and here it is if you’ve not come across it as yet. Read more

New Year Update and a Bunch of Recommended Reads

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Happy New Year! While you’re all chilling on New Year’s Day I thought I’d offer some book recommendations based on my recent reading. What’s surprising is that I’ve not read a single eBook over the past month – only print copies. Here’s a fab selection including three novels from the Man Booker 2013 shortlist and some old favourites. I can recommend them all:

Here's a pile of books I loved reading in December.

Here’s a pile of books I loved reading in December.

In-Flight Entertainment, short stories by Helen Simpson (several stories touching on issues around climate change);

The Testament of Mary, short story by Colm Toibin (Booker shortlisted. A reading highlight of my year); Read more