That’s ‘Liver’ rhyming with ‘Fiver’ in the title, and not the rubbery internal organ…

I’ve spent a fantastic couple of days in Liverpool at the Shipping Lines Literary Festival, part of the city’s celebration as European Capital of Culture, 2008.  I got to run some fang-tastic creative writing workshops at the refurbished Bluecoat centre, cause chaos (or is that survive chaos?) at the central library, and spend time with the brilliant author, Mal Peet, and his wife.

Even better, I bumped into a fourth-cousin of mine at one of the workshops (hello Liam!) and Thomas drew me this utterly incredible picture:

Special thanks to Jo from Walker Books for organising everything, acting as my minder and not being too grossed out by my collection of relics!

Tommy

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