Humour

Three Doors Ashton Macaulay Neil listened to the crackling whisper of the autumn breeze as it mixed with the rumble of passing cars. The sun hung...

He loves me but he leaves me here and there and everywhere. He makes me sing so tunefully but I wish he’d take more care! One day, a train guard...

Dyado Petr, Baba Stefka and Todor Zhivkov are/were real people, the earthquake and appointment of a new head of state really did happen, and the places I’ve mentioned really do exist, but much of the rest of this tale is a fig leaf of my imagination. However, it describes an event that could have taken place in my part of Bulgaria seventy years ago. Superstition is so strong and diverse here that it’s possible to make it up and get away with it. Maybe I did make it up and maybe I didn’t.

You are surprised, as a published author, by how many people have not read your book. You board a train, you look at all the faces as you walk down...