Author: janneedle_2j3fay

Such a humiliation for a hard-working nurse. Now read on…

And now the poor girl is being read about on the Plinth in Trafalgar Square! Julie McCarthy, mother, arts co-ordinator, canal boat operator, is doing her bit for Waggie and Sadie M’Gee – at an admittedly ungodly hour of the morning. The plinth is the sort of idea that would have driven Waggie mad. A golden opportunity for bringing his magic catapult into play, at the very least.

Still, it’ll bring a bit of northern culture to the deep sarf, won’t it? In his second adventure – Wagstaffe and the Life of Crime – our hero actually goes to London, and being Wagstaffe, goes by tandem, with his friend Hugh N’Dell providing the back-up pedal power. They use the M1, of course – and outrun the police cars that pursue them.

Although, to be fair, Waggie is a little knackered when they reach the Smoke.

Put the finishing touches to the latest novel a couple of days ago. It’s to be called Silver and Blood, and it’s a fast-moving thriller for the sort of readers who love Anthony Horowitz. My son Wilf, for one. He once wrote to the great man, and told him he thought his books were fantastic.

“My dad also writes children’s books,” he added – “but his are crap!”

Painful business being a norfer, I can tell you…

My cut down version of Moby Dick is now out in a smaller, paperback format, in Britain and America. Keep getting lovely letters from the USA about it, and so far, nothing from nearer home.

It’s a lovely thing, though. Illustrated by the great Patrick Benson, published by Walker Books,at less than a tenner.Isbn 978-1-4063-1744-2

Buy some for Lulu!

Sadie M’Gee, the unfortunate nurse who cooked and ate Wagstaffe’s heart after his accident, is apparently being hounded by the press.

Reporters have been ringing her at work to ask for comments on her “cannibalism.” Pretty embarrassing for someone who works in the A&E department where Wagstaffe was put together after being squashed flat by a lorry.

Sadie, 29, who is a real nurse in Oldham Royal Hospital, blames her father. (That’s me, incidentally.) She wonders if she’ll ever live down the shame and become a matron?

A picture is circulating now of her in her uniform, with her father. Weirdly, she is still smiling.

She even plans to go to Waterstones in the Spindles Precinct in Oldham on Saturday July 4 – either to buy a copy or (more likely) to cause a scene.

And it serves him right.

If you miss the signing session, you can get the snazzy new paperback in other ways.

Order directly by going to back-to-front.com and buying online, or by going to Amazon or into your local bookshop and providing the ISBN, which is 1-904529-41-0. Books bought on the Back to Front website have a discount and are free of P&P.

Wagstaffe, the unfortunate boy who was squashed flat by a lorry just because he threw an egg at the windscreen, rides again!

Now with clockwork guts, he has been appearing in a theatre in the south of England and horrifying parents with his filthy habits and bad behaviour.

Many children have tried to commit their parents to old people’s homes, according to the national press (Sunday Sport).

More permanently, the original book of his adventures, Wagstaffe the Wind-up Boy, has been reprinted, and is now available.

If you order it from the publishers, Back to Front, you get free postage, and a discount! Makes sense to Wagstaffe, but then he’s a “manky little rat.”

Here are the details:
Order directly by going to back-to-front.com and buying online, or by going to Amazon or into your local bookshop and providing the ISBN, which is 1-904529-41-0. Books bought on the Back to Front website have a discount and are free of P&P.

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