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Everyday #writer #Fenland boy #United fan. Around the clock a few times still hoping to stir and make new memories as #novelist #diarist #memoirist.

Joined June 2022
No sorrows on the lake of egrets. Thanks to my friend Bill Moore for allowing me to share his painting, plus an article on his development as a (largely) self-taught artist in the latest post on my website davidgbailey.com.
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Pleased to show publication of my third and latest novel, for more details see also davidgbailey.com all the best.
Published today in paperback and hardback (and ebook) 'Them Feltwell Boys' by @davidgbailey | Gritty realism and sometimes dark humour – a companion novel to 'Them Roper Girls'.
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From Dave Daze Archive today davidgbailey.com Thursday 28 April 1994: Hemingway “only constructive thing I ever learned about women – no matter what happened to them and how they turned, disregard all that remember them only as they were on the best day they ever had.”
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Dave Daze today davidgbailey.com. " Friday 23 December 1977: Outwell Karamazov “It is not God I do not accept. I merely most respectfully return him the ticket.” " Today I'm more inclined to check the T&Cs to see if there's any way I can hang on to that ticket.
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🎉🎉🎉Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 Sharon @ShazzieRimmel is the winner of Them Roper Girls giveaway which was part of the recent blog tour. I hope you enjoy your books @RandomTTours @davidgbailey #winner #BookTwitter
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Thought Stevie's Christmas text sacred but don't mind Lizzo's significant change of one word - maybe not in time for you and me but just in time for her and she. Happy holidays!
Excited about this #RandomThingsTours Blog Tour for #ThemRoperGirls by @davidgbailey @SilverWoodBooks Begins 14 November
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Panama skyline - Axco 101
Go meet your heroes whenever you can. And specially if it's #ROBERTO DURAN! instagram.com/p/ChpsF4OrT_Z/…
Two Red Devils but only one loud and proud at the minute. El diablo sabe mas por United que por diablo. instagram.com/p/ChSdHCKrco_/…
Amongst friends at BYOB (Buy Your Own Book). Cheers Joe, Dean, Lou and Matt!
See what the other sisters have to say too and read free extract from book on my website.
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@davidgbailey has a new novel #ThemRoperGirls, a #familysaga. Four sisters make their way in the world with challenges from in and outside their family. Angela: Whatever rumours you may have heard, I never knew Dad say my third sister Karen wasn’t his. davidgbailey.com
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From today my book Seventeen has a new little sister. Or four if you count Them Roper Girls individually!
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July 2022 – the latest #novel by @davidgbailey, #ThemRoperGirls, a #familysaga with traces of humour and compassion in their own voices. The book follows four sisters over more than sixty years from their 1950s childhood. Go to buff.ly/3OJqUJH for chance to win a copy!
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DD Sun 3 July 1977: Berlin Had a walk to Kurfürstendamm Gedächtniskirche and all that old bull shit. - New old content like that daily on davidgbailey.com. And today, always the culture vulture, preparing for publication of my latest novel Them Roper Girls in a fortnight.
Dave Daze Wed 29 June 1977: Freiburg Robert & I after drinking last night fetched Christina from German Seminar about 12.30. Elefante for a few beers. She left for a lecture having invited us to bring 4 litres wine (at her expense) for supper. I bought 6 litres sicherheitshalber