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I am a 49 year old Scottish writer living just outside Glasgow. In the seventies and eighties my poems appeared regularly in the small press magazines that were legion at the time. By the nineties I had allowed myself to become disillusioned and stopped sending stuff out. I didn't stop writing however but moved onto novels and short stories in that order. Strange, I know.

favourite books

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Nineteen Eighty-Four
In Watermelon Sugar
A Scanner Darkly
Billy Liar

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http://jim-murdoch.blogspot.com/     http://www.jimmurdoch.co.uk/

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Living with the Truth

Jim Murdoch

A tired old bookseller gets to spend two days with the personification of truth.


My book chronicles two days in the life of an old bookseller, Jonathan Payne, who is forced to share his life with the personification of truth. The book is character-driven so nothing spectacular happens – they wander along a promenade, spend time in his shop, have a curry, go fishing – but all the time they are doing these things Truth is opening Jonathan's eyes to the truths about himself, his neighbours and finally the true nature of the universe. Nothing is as he might have expected. By the end of the book, having learned far more about himself than he ever wanted to know, Jonathan finds out that it's usually never too late to start again. Only sometimes it is.

 

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Francis Albert McGrath wrote 683 days ago

Hi Jim Murdoch, when I began this journey in September 2009, I did no....

Daniel Delacy wrote 691 days ago

Care to swap reads? Apocalypse Then

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