Here I go again😆. An old, white male having a go at a virtue-signalling, flagwaver🙄. The truth of this is, Ms Gilbert and her publishers have their eye in the money. The Ukraine angle is BS. A book about the Russian psyche written by an Uber-class American was never going to fly. So withdrawing it has at least got her other work some publicity.

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https://youtu.be/-rfvEXx7daw

We all get influenced. By our close family, friends, by this social media, art, movies, people in pubs ... and books. All these influences gel in the creative process which every one of us is capable of.

In my latest YouTube episode for Quartermaine' Books I reflect on a couple of the books that influenced me.

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https://youtu.be/EUgePa02Lf4