GRANNY BARKES   - A great stocking-filler for this Christmas...

"This masterpiece from an undoubted future Nobel Prize winner should be required reading for the entire human race” 

(A.N. Wilson ) 

Back some years ago, when I was doing the rounds of literary agents with Granny Barkes, I had a very nasty letter from one agent. He asked how I could have the gall to send him such rubbish. I kept this gentleman's details and on the day Granny Barkes hit the bookshelves he got a specially inscribed copy with the inscription reading: Put that in your pipe and smoke it Nancyboy!

GENE