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Second day in Vancouver after my first of two events last night, and I’m enjoying it as much as ever. Muchas gracias to Hal Wake for the invitation to the excellent Vancouver International Writers’ and Readers’ Festival, to Linwood Barclay and Gail Bowen, my co-panellists on the Revue Stage, and to our incredible moderator, Senator Larry W Campbell, former Mayor of Vancouver, who doesn’t look a bit like his official photograph. First thing Larry said to me last night, was ‘My grandfather was from Bellshill.’ I replied, ‘Big deal, so was mine,’ and we were off from there. I don’t know how we wound up discussing the anaesthetic qualities of Buckfast Tonic Wine in front of a live audience, but we did.
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I felt I had to write and Thank You and your co hosts for a great evening i thouroughly enjoyed the night. I enjoy the books I hope you continue to write for many years, I am gald Andy is now back from Dundee I escaped to Vancouver 34 years ago but still miss Scotland. One day we will win the world cup maybe only in fiction >> Go on let us win in one of the books it is the only way it could happens
Cheers and Thanks
Bob
‘Thanks Bob. Linwood, Gail, Larry and I all enjoyed the evening, but the real test is audience reaction. Win the World Cup? In Stay of Execution I managed to create a Scottish Pope, but I have to stay within genre, and I can’t help feeling that a scenario of Darren Fletcher holding the World Cup aloft would have to be filed under fantasy.