My first book, The Life and
Times of Algernon Swift, is being published on the 9th of February
by Head of Zeus, and will be available from all good bookshops and online. It
will also be available as an E-book.
In a lot of ways the child of this website, the book features an earnest young man named Algernon who finds
himself pitted against the pitfalls and pratfalls of the English language.
We follow his progress as he attempts to cope
with his elderly relative, Reverend Hawker, a man with an exasperating inability
to mean one thing at a time, as well as the exorbitant passion of the exquisite
Mavis (a woman with X on her mind).
And here is a short excerpt from the book, thanks to Good OnPaper magazine’s website.
I will be signing copies of the book at Stroud Bookshop on
Saturday the 11th of February from 11am.
I’ll also be on BBC Radio Gloucestershire from 3pm on 1st
February talking to Nicky Price about the book.
Over the next few weeks I will be tweeting and instagramming
regular cartoons in the lead-up to publication. Here’s an instagram cartoon to “whet”
your appetite:
So, if you feel
inclined, please pop over to Twitter (@hawkerspot) and Instagram
(billjonesauthor) to find out what Algernon, Mavis and Reverend Hawker are
making of it all.