Change of Days, the first in a series of books based in the UK after a global disaster is available now on Amazon and Waterstones.
It's a gritty, realistic view of life up to, and after the event when we realised we're not the dominate force we thought we were.
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I wonder whether you still visit this Blog? We had a new member of staff join the team at work today whose surname is also Hawley, and it reminded me of the time I attended a meeting in Manchester Town Hall that you were hosting where you mentioned you'd published this book.
ReplyDeleteAfter the meeting, I went into Central Library next door to see whether I could find a book of obscure local walks that I'd leafed through the last time I was in there. I didn't remember the title but had a feeling it was a light yellow spine so I scanned through the bookshelves in the area I'd found it previously - until my eyes lighted on a book about Wythenshawe's history as the largest council estate in Europe - written by a man I'd met a couple of months before after finding a bouquet of roses and a poem that he'd hidden in the trunk of a beech tree in Wythenshawe Park.
His name was Jed Austin, and he'd signed his poem "Jedi Austin" which I had loved - and it was called The Penny Star - which I also loved for obvious reasons!
I then went back to scanning the shelves for this other book, when what did I see but Change of Days by Ian Hawley - the man I'd just met in the building next door!
All of this made me think of "The Fix" by my favourite band Elbow and Richard Hawley
"The fix is in, there's a nag gonna dance home at Epsom.
The fix is in, can't wait to see how it upsets 'em
Too many times we've been postally pipped
We've loaded the saddles, the Mickeys are slipped
We're swapping the turf for the sand and the surf and the sin
Cos the fix, the fix is in"