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Sunny Day Reading

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It's the second day of July and the sun has returned. Not only that, but it's also Friday. Having drastically reduced my sleeping hours this week to get the Murdering The Text website finished, I think that today I deserve a break. I still have school runs and housework to do but just for an hour this morning, I'll treat myself to a book in the garden. After yesterday's rainy day reading, I feel like something different today. I want something optimistic, upbeat and funny. On my bookshelves, the first book that jumps out at me on this sunny Friday is Julian Clary's Murder Most Fab . Clary's fictional character, Johnny Debonair (TV's Mr Friday Night) reveals his rise to fame and descent into infamy in his revealing memoir, taglined 'You'd kill to be that famous'. It's delightfully wicked, as naughty as Clary's TV persona and very funny. My next purchase will be his second novel, Devil in Disguise Poetry is a skill that evades me but I sti...