To all Fifteen Squared solvers and bloggers
kenmac has kindly given me permission to announce the recent publication of my ALL SQUARED crossword book.
The book tells of my career as a crossword compiler from my schooldays right through to commitments nowadays. Ten chapters cover the ten principal newspapers and periodicals to which I have contributed crosswords over the years with descriptions of the history of each crossword series. These chapters cover, for instance, the Reader’s Crossword in the Birmingham Mail, the Puzzler, Prospect , the FT and Guardian. I celebrate many of the famous compilers of the past such as Hubert Phillips, Stanley Watt (Lavengro), Alec Robins, Leslie Stokes, the Rev. John Graham, Roger Squires and John Caesar (Jac). I tell of my career working with some of the leading crossword editors over the past thirty years — including one outlandish megalomaniac!
I champion the work of many of my friends in the crossword world, such as Sarah Hayes, Christopher Brougham KC, James Brydon and the Hex quartet, and others too whose puzzles are regularly reviewed here in Fifteen Squared. Each chapter rounds off with some of my puzzles which have been published in each of the ten periodicals since 1962.
ALL SQUARED is available only from me direct at:
puzzler <at> btinternet <dot> com and it costs £12.99 plus £5 P&P.
Tom Johnson (aka Doc, Gozo, Maskarade) Nantwich 200925
Congratulations, Tom! Is it possible to order the book from off-island? Some of us have no access to pounds.
Try using PayPal.
I imagine P&P would be higher for the continent, and maybe some post-Brexit tariffs included as well?
I commend Tom’s book. He has had a long career full of fun.