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For the past three years Rebecca de Saintonge has been running writing workshops for The Oldie magazine, and they’ve been so popular that this year they’re putting on a two-day writing course. She will be joined by two award winning writers, Paul Bailey and Sara Wheeler, as well as Jeremy Lewis, commissioning editor of The Oldie, Andrew Lownie, from the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency and Patrick Janson-Smith, an Editorial Director of HarperCollins.

It will be held in the sumptuous rooms of East India House, in the West End. There is only space for 20 writers, so book now.

You can find out all the details, and sign on, by clicking here

Alan Wilkinson is the ghost-writer for Mike Pannett, the former Yorkshire bobby whose memoirs are currently taking the book market by storm. Now Then, Lad (serialised in The Daily Mail and a Radio 4 Book of the Week) and You’re Coming With Me, Lad are selling like hot cakes and are all set to be runaway best-sellers in 2010. Not On My Patch, Lad is due out in July of this year, a more books are planned right into 2012. Reviewers are calling this series ‘a worthy successor to James Herriot’ and ‘a Heartbeat for the 21st century.

Last year Alan mentored Barbara Want through the grueling process of writing about her life with BBC World At One presenter Nick Clarke and his death from cancer. Why Not Me? A Tale of Love and Loss will be published by Orion in March 2010.