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Publisher Michael Chambers, left, with his uncle, Sean Graham |
Family affair Publisher shakes off surgery for uncle’s do
FOR busy Barbican publisher Michael Chambers, hosting a book signing for his 89-year-old uncle was all in a day’s work.
But while the audience wouldn’t have been surprised to see the author Sean Graham with a walking stick, Mr Chambers had to do a bit of explaining as to why he too needed some assistance on stage.
Putting a new twist on the showbiz phrase “The show must go on,” Mr Chambers revealed he had stepped off the surgeon’s table just hours earlier to launch The French Odalisque, Mr Graham’s third novel. “I told the anaesthetist about tonight and they said, ‘Well you might forget the name of the author’ – so I’ve got it written down,” he quipped.
Mr Graham, who sat down to sign copies of his book at the Chambers Gallery in Long Lane last Wednesday, said he had found the inspiration for the novel’s lead character, a slave in the Turkish Sultan’s royal harem, in the British Library in Euston. Ex-army colonel and documentary maker Mr Graham said: “I discovered none of the ladies kept diaries – they weren’t literary creatures – so I’ve written a book about such a lady. The events are based on fact, the details are entirely mine.” |
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