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This week’s blog: The popularity of amnesia

What is it about our lives now that makes forgetting such a fascinating subject for us?
Last time I mentioned I was talking at the Milim Leeds Literary Festival about why amnesia stories are so popular.
You can catch the recording now as well as a guest blog I’ve written for Riversmeet Productions.
“If I should forget you…” Amnesia at Milim Leeds Literary Festival
“If I should forget you…”Leeds Literary Festival – Talking and taking questions on the popularity of amnesia in stories and about my amnesia-based psychological thriller “Room 15”
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Out now in paperback and e-book, Room 15 is a psychological mystery thriller about a police detective who discovers he has amnesia and that someone is trying to kill him before he gets his memory back.
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