On 30 July (6:30 for 7:00) I’ll be upstairs at Gleebooks conversing with Patrice Newell about The Blue Plateau.

Book a place through Gleebooks; check their site.

Patrice, apart from being the lapsed Maclean’s Girl, a famous TV star, an organic beef and olive farmer, and non-politician, is, as Charlotte was to Wilbur, a fine writer (The Olive Grove, The River) and a good friend. Come and hear what that sounds like.

I’m hoping that she doesn’t sicken visibly in my presence, as her partner Phillip Adams did on air the other night (Late Night Live), and leave me to ask as well as answer the questions.