BBC Radio Manchester interview on 15th June 2010

I've become involved with the Survivors For Peace charity as a result of my novel 'Scars Beneath The Skin' being published.

The charity's in a close-run race for this year's National Lottery Awards - please vote for them here:

http://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards/shortlistitem.cfm?id_category=2&id_entry=108

It's free, no strings attached!
The above web page describes the work the charity does.

Also, here's a BBC Radio Manchester interview I did a couple of days ago, about how the Survivors For Peace has helped me. The interview's in an mp3 jukebox, along with another Radio Manchester interview I did back in 2008.

http://www.ajduggan.co.uk/page5.htm

Thanks for your vote!

Survivors For Peace - National Lottery Awards

Please take a look at the work done by the Survivors For Peace programme on the attached link. They're in the running for the National Lottery Awards and your vote could help. It's completely free, so please have a look.

http://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards/shortlistitem.cfm?id_category=2&id_entry=108

Robin Hood, the movie

Went to see the new Russell Crowe film, Robin Hood, the other day.
Very educational. I learned that:

• Robin and most of his Merry Men were Irish (although Russell Crowe's accent changed as the film went on)
• Robin's Dad, an 'umble stonemason, wrote the Magna Carta (clever of him).
• Those crafty French invented the 'Saving Private Ryan'-style landing craft as a means of quickly landing troops on a beach. I half expected them to unveil a Sherman tank in that part of the film.
  

On the plus side, the medieval settings are all well done. And Russell Crowe would've made a perfectly decent Robin Hood if they'd kept to the original story. Unfortunately, it's all about a French invasion rather than robbing the rich to feed the poor. The two great bad guys of the original story, King John and the Sheriff of Nottingham, don't get much of a look-in.

My viewing companion's opinion was a bit harsher. 'Waste of £7,' she said. Sorry, Russell.

Introduction

My name's Andy Duggan (A J Duggan) and my debut novel, 'Scars Beneath The Skin,' was published by Flambard Press in May 2009.

The story has been put forward for the Costa Book Awards and the Guardian First Book Award.

It's a dark modern love story about the traumatised victim of a terrorist bomb and the woman who wants to turn his life around.