by David West | Aug 1, 2022 | Readers Club
I must have heard Richard Osman advertising his second book on ClassicFM dozens of times. I can’t remember exactly how it went. Something like: there are murders, mafia and Colombian drug barons, diamonds, drugs, spies, laughter and tears. I didn’t doubt the laughter....
by David West | Jul 31, 2022 | News
I need to write an elevator pitch. I’ve had my first session with my publicist, Brian. The idea is to give Called to Account a proper launch, with radio and podcast interviews, press releases etc. Brian asked lots of good questions, and I gave lots of rambling,...
by David West | Jul 30, 2022 | Readers Club
No, not the Chuck Berry song, the play by George Bernard Shaw. Claire and I went to see it years ago. It was probably at the Theatre Royal in Bath, but could have been London. Edward Fox was playing the waiter, William. He was brilliant, of course. What Shaw does with...
by David West | Jul 29, 2022 | News
I really only intended to write one novel. I’d come across Sir Anthony Standen in George Malcolm Thomson’s biography of Sir Francis Drake. As my mother’s maiden name was Standen, I researched him, and wow! What a story he had. When I discovered on Ancestry that he was...
by David West | Jul 28, 2022 | Readers Club
I connect them. In late 1986 I spent three months managing the refurbishment of the cooling tower on the Port Sudan Oil Refinery. I had a team of five Irishmen, two Scotsmen, and dozens of Sudanese and Nigerians. Surrounding the refinery millions of people were...
