A step into the big(ger) time this week, with the Kindle release of DEAR MISTER PRESIDENT. Manifold Press are uploading their titles in batches of three but on an irregular basis, which means that STAGE WHISPERS will follow shortly, and GHOST STATION soon after that. Then there will be a break, with MAKE DO AND MEND and BETWEEN NOW AND THEN being uploaded towards the end of the sequence. The idea is to mix and match so that they don't upload all of a single author's books at one time, which seems perfectly fair to me!
Meanwhile, I've made a tentative start on the new book, which doesn't yet have a title. It's set in 1966, and the main characters are Alistair - a widowed teacher who lives with his daughter and his former mother-in-law in a less-than-salubrious part of London, and whose daily life of trying to get geography into the heads of teenaged boys who would rather be smoking or playing football offers him very little challenge - and Rex, younger, relatively new to teaching and to London, whose darker skin sometimes gets him the wrong kind of attention in a city still struggling to accept multiculturality. Hopefully this will be a book about prejudice of many different kinds, and about learning how to deal with it; choosing one's battles, and making progress slowly.
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Awarded December 2013 for MAKE DO AND MEND by Adam Fitzroy
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