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From the Blog
The perfect Christmas present
Wishing all my readers out there a very merry Christmas. 'Merry' is the right word - it doesn't mean getting smashed on alcohol or other pyscho-active substances. It means putting the cares of the world aside, if only for a day or two. And if someone has been...
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Trainspotting in Finland
On the first day of my Fringe tours in August 2018 we were joined by a Finnish journalist: here's the write-up.
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pHew
That was a month! Exactly a month on from the launch of CHOOSE LIFE. CHOOSE LEITH, I have taken around one hundred people on the tour - here’s a link to a comment on the tour (I’m not sure why they call me ‘Mr Cook’) and shifted around fifty books. Here it is (bottom...
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