Big Day

Christmas and New Year's gone, and already we are well into 2008. But today is a big day for me: my book, on which I have laboured for the past six months, has finally gone to the printers and, technically, is published today - though it'll be a few more days before it can be ordered on line, either as a hard copy or as an e-book.

It's a biography - of a woman who was born in 1903 and died in 2004 and who, as a dancer, performed all over India and the Far East in the Twenties and Thirties. It's title is Playing the Empire and it is, in a way, the story of the last years of what we once called the British Empire.

You can read more about it on www.pedlarpress.co.uk.