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My new book Doubting Thomas will be published (in Australia) on 25 September, so I should probably tell you a bit more about it than I have in previous G'days. Thomas and his unusual problem have been buzzing around in my head for a couple of years now. He made his first appearance one day when I was thinking about the whole business of truth and lies, and how both those things can be a bit more complicated than we sometimes think. How sometimes lies can be told to protect people, for example, and how the truth can be told to hurt them. Stuff like that. Poor Thomas knows better than most of us how many lies get told each day in the average school and family and soccer team. Suddenly, out of the blue, he finds he's got lie-detector nipples. When somebody tells Thomas a lie, his chest goes triple-mozzie-bite for several extremely itchy and embarrassing seconds. It gets worse. Thomas discovers that the people closest to him in his life – his mum and dad and his two best friends – are all lying to him on a regular basis. He also discovers that his strange new ability may well end up causing him to die much younger than he'd planned. There is one person who can help him with all this. Unfortunately she lives on the other side of the world, and Thomas isn't allowed to do international travel on a school night. Not on his own. So somehow Thomas has to find a way to get his family and friends to come on the trip with him. OK, that's probably all I should reveal about the story in case my publishers get cross and inflict nipple discomfort on me. But by the time Doubting Thomas is published, you'll be able to read the first chapter here, and soon afterwards listen to it as well. In the last couple of G'days I asked for suggestions about how this site could be improved. I'm still keen to hear from you about that. Would you like pod-casting, for example? Or video G'days? Or scratch-and-sniff mobile phone downloads? Email me via the Visitors Page and let me know. Or, if you've got some paper and a pen at your place, send me your thoughts in a letter. If you enclose a self-addressed envelope (details on the free book page), I'll send you a free book (not Deadly Part Two, a different, complete one) in return for your website-improving suggestions. Until next time, oo-roo and happy reading (and website commenting),
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