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Hello, welcome to another Rahalasdaba Book Club. This week I've been reading the excellent

Running Through Sand by Paul Tonkinson, who joins me now. Hello, Paul. We've both got one.

Yeah, we both have books. That's the only one I've got left, actually. I'm giving them away. Yes. Incredible, isn't it? Incredible to write a book, isn't it? It gives me so much, so fantastic, isn't it? It's an amazing. Well, you've done, at least two, you've done, or have you done more? I've been looking at the blue too. And I'm always very grateful to get the opportunity.

It's just some such. is it two you've done or have done two i've been looking at two um and i'm very always very

grateful to get the opportunity it's just such a wild thing that tomorrow will ask you to write a book

you know it it's you know it is it is great to to get that opportunity and yeah and yeah and you know

think people it's so difficult to get things published as well, Paul.

You know, so many people who've got stuff I was trying to write other things.

So it's a huge achievement.

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