Books from Salt - plus Sheffield, Donald and Cinderella

Here are two more images from my Purnell Disney book, circa 1969, when I was born. The first book I ever owned. These are for Redscharlach, who left a comment remembering the selfsame volume. Here's the Cinderella ball (All that pink! Makes me wonder if this picture's the reason my favourite painting ever is Raoul Dufy's Rose Room). And here's Donald in Disneyland, with his bratty nephews, too - a Calvinoesque tale, putting the fun back into metafiction.

Just back tonight from Sheffield, where I had a wonderful time reading to everyone at Hillsbrough College. Thanks to Ruth Owen and Judith Adam for looking after me, and everyone in the audience for listening so nicely and asking such brilliant questions. Doctor Who fans and Brenda fans in attendance, which always makes me happy. Such, such good questions. I'm always amazed. When I sit in an audience like that I never know what to ask. To be the person up there, standing with your pile of books and your bottled water, you're desperate for good q+a and I'm hardly ever disappointed.

Back home to see a terrifically happy pic of Chris Hamilton-Emery on the Salt blog, with him holding up four new books hot from the presses. Including mine! 'Twelve Stories' is now in print! Which I'm very, very happy about. I love having a new collection of stories about to come out and the finished thing looks great. Can't wait to see it in the actual flesh.

I'll be at the Salt reading at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester at 3pm on Sunday - as a listener, rather than a reader, this time - and I'm looking forward to meeting the Salt team. I'm so pleased they've wanted to do a book of mine.