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AUTHOR – DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH!

- The Life and Times of a Spontaneous Scribbler -

PAPERBACK edition published by Oasis-WERP December 2024
ISBN 978-1-0369-0273-5

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KINDLE edition published by Oasis-WERP December 2024
ASIN B0DP14VHQR

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SYNOPSIS:

From the author of the bestselling 'Snowball Oranges' series of narrative travelogues set in Mallorca comes this humour–spiced though frank and revealing memoir of the joys and headaches of becoming – after many years of trying – a published author at sixty.

Almost a quarter of a century, fifteen books in various genres and twelve languages later, Peter recalls the unlikely route he took to becoming a full-time scribbler: from reluctant civil servant in Edinburgh, to professional jazz musician in London, record producer everywhere from the Isle of Skye to a Beau Geste style fort in the Arabian Desert, farmer of barley and beef in East Lothian, orange grower in Mallorca, and finally to doer-up of houses ‘back home’ in Scotland.

Accompanied and supported along the way by long-suffering wife Ellie, (friends told her she either deserved a medal or a certificate of insanity!) Peter's writing journey, like the content of his books, was never pre-planned, but always undertaken with commitment, optimism, perseverance and, perhaps most importantly of all, a healthy sense of humour.

Peter’s characteristically ad-lib approach to 'readings' has found him taking part in engagements as diverse and far-flung as the formality of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, a pop-up street event in Poland, and even on a cruise liner bound for the Canary Islands. Eighty-four years young and still scribbling, Peter tells a story that will entertain, fascinate and occasionally shock, not just aspiring scribes, but also ‘normal’ book-readers with a hankering to know what goes on ‘behind the scenes’.

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