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I've just started to read Dick Francis' Under fire, he died recently and I just wanted to give him money that he can now never use
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I was in the second-hand bookshop my mother works in every Friday a week or two ago, and a guy came in with a Jamaican woman. He sees that my mother is reading a Dick Francis book, and goes on to say that he knew him quite well.
Apparently, this guy runs a Cayman Islands newspaper, and Dick Francis came to him once, asking to examine a printing press so he could describe it properly in his book. That's how they met; I don't know how close friends they were.
He could have been making it up, but I don't know why he would.
I'm reading
The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket aloud to my brother. To myself, I'm reading
Guards! Guards!, although I haven't read any for a number of weeks.