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Otto English

5 Mar, 7 tweets, 2 min read

Big announcement time!

For years I've banged on about the need for someone, anyone - to tackle FAKE HISTORY. And then last year, I was commissioned to do just that.

My book is out on June 10th.
amazon.co.uk/Fake-History-G…

@welbeckpublish

This is - I'm afraid - going to take more than one tweet. I'm very grateful to @welbeckpublish for taking a punt on me and to my agent Doug Young. Thanks to, to The Bookseller for this - which sums up the direction of travel
thebookseller.com/news/otto-engl…

Finally - and I'm sorry to come over all Oscars acceptance speech before the thing has even come out - thank you twitter friends for the arguments and friendships and banter. This site gets a bad rap. It's not all bad!

Thank you people you're fabulous and very kind.

Also available at Waterstones and Smiths. Thank you again everyone - now intend to make a coffee and go and eat a bun
waterstones.com/book/fake-hist…

Seem to have upset the think tank people. And they haven't even read it yet.... It's not ALL about fish and chips....

Although... who knows... it could all be about fish and chips

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And I'm sorry but I refuse to believe this one is real.

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