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Humour: Book? Launched!

Book?  Launched! In which an unsuspecting writer goes to launch a book and comes away the wiser for it My mother’s neighbour’s son wrote a book. He found a publisher and now it was time for the launch. I was asked if I would please ‘do the needful’. My mother being very fond of his…

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Humour: On book launches

Oh, the book launch! Does anyone remember those wine and cheese evenings of another age, usually thrown by the fashion designer du jour at a five or seven-star hotel? The lights blazed down from Murano chandeliers, you sipped indifferent wine masquerading as full-blooded Shiraz, you nibbled cheese lumps juxtaposed with strange veggies, you made meaningless…

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