How surprised would your teenage reader self be by your new novel?Learn more about the book and author at Colin Cotterill's website.
My teenage reader self wouldn’t have read the book in the first place. He was too busy playing sports and chasing girls to waste time in lockdown with a book. If we’d sat down a slightly older Colin and ordered him to at least take a stab at the latest novel, I think we might have drawn him into the plot because he was a sucker for adventure and solving mysteries and The Delightful Life of a Suicide Pilot is awash with thrills and secrets and hidden clues. There’s that, plus the fact he’d learn some things about the second world war that few people knew. It wasn’t a well-known fact that Japan occupied Laos for example. And young Colin liked war stories. Would he be surprised about anything? Perhaps by...[read on]
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