Looking for a bio of Nick Cook, I found that he is an award-winning defense and aerospace journalist who, for the past 15 years, has been Aviation Editor and Aerospace Consultant of the well-known publication known as Jane's. His family believes his bravery cost him his marriage." This is particularly sad because, according to reports, he and Lynthia met when they were teenagers and, in my observation, relationships which start very young often have more staying-power than those embarked on later in life. His autobiography, Barefoot Soldier, is set to be a bestseller when it is published by Little, Brown next year."įurther down the page I was sorry to read that Beharry, "…separated from Lynthia in May, just 11 days after accepting his VC. Seconds later, the 26-year-old soldier who once walked barefoot to school in Grenada was a millionaire. With top London literary agent Mark Lucas at his side, Beharry nervously lifted his pen, took a deep breath and began to sign his name.
Last September, the UK newspaper known as the Mirror, ran a story beginning "When Private Johnson Beharry looked at the contract lying on the table in front of him, he could have been forgiven for reflecting that his life was about to change for ever. To escape a life that was in danger of careening out of control, he cut off his dreadlocks and joined the British Army." Faced with loneliness, disillusionment and isolation, Beharry was seduced by drugs and alcohol.
But the UK was not what he thought it would be. Knowing only about this young man's acts of bravery, I was surprised to read "…he came to Britain at the age of 19 to better himself.
whose memoir, Barefoot Soldier, written with Nick Cook, is coming out in October. The first to grab my attention was a feature about Grenada-born Private Johnson Beharry V.C. Instead of sitting on top of the wall to watch the comings and goings of small boats, we found a more sheltered spot and Mr Bookworm, who had brought a flask of coffee and some wine in his backpack, read a newspaper while I read PN, marking items of interest. On the Sunday before last there was a thick sea haze over the water and the cruise ship at anchor in the channel called Little Russell, between Guernsey and the islands of Herm and Jethou, was only dimly visible. Meanwhile I want to discuss other things I found in Publishing News, read on a bench on St Peter Port's harbour wall to which we often walk down on Sunday mornings. Without family dysfunction to write about, where would many of the best-selling authors of the last few years be?" Ms Thomson, who is editor of PN, wrote " Laura Lippman grew up amid "a very, regular, middle-class background"- which, in many ways, is a disappointment if what you want to be when you grow up is a writer. Liz Thomson made an interesting comment in her interview with American crime writer Laura Lippman in the issue of Publishing News dated 12 May which reached me on publication day instead of a week or ten days later as frequently happens when I'm in Spain.
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