I recently sent out a request to a number of family and friends asking them to please buy the Kindle version of my novel, at 99 pence/cents, of The Shanghai Circle, as I had lost all my Amazon reviews when I reissued it in paperback.

So far, four have purchased it, and a few apologised they don’t read on Kindle.

It reminds me of this video and the old man in the gutter is me, and the young girl helping him reminds me of my youngest daughter. Diana Rosie, whose career has been in advertising. Why didn’t I ask her?

While she’s at it, perhaps I should ask her to ghost-write my books as her novels have been translated into four languages.