Reviews - Featured in THE SCOTTISH SUN, who simply said, ‘AUTHOR Paul Murdoch has penned a hilarious book about trying to keep the pounds off during a pandemic – while maintaining his love of food and booze.
Featured on Radio Scotland, The Sun, The Scotsman and The Sunday Post - an old bloke takes you on his hilarious attempt at running in later life
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Reilly Dufresne (Writer and Former Lifestyle Editor of the Glasgow University’s Qmunicate Magazine) says…
‘First off, I want to say congratulations on another captivating book. I finished all of it in one sitting. Some of the writing was REALLY funny. I especially liked page 87/88 when you write: ‘I slow down a bit to float face down for a few seconds to see if the lifeguard is paying attention.’ This had me laughing out loud. Later, I was in stitches when you wrote: ‘The butterfly, a stupid stroke in my opinion that must have been invented by a sadist, is best as it crunches the most calories’. As a former competitive swimmer, I couldn’t have summed the stroke up better. I also really appreciated the information on black pepper – I’ve been generously adding it to dinner preparation! Once again, congratulations on a delightful book! - Reilly Dufresne (Writer and Former Lifestyle Editor of the Glasgow University’s Qmunicate Magazine)
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Four summer walks that look at some of the nature, places and people that formed West Dunbartonshire. A fantastic addition for visitors and locals alike, you don't even have to be in West Dunbartonshire to appreciate this lovely book of nature and culture. It gives you a flavour of Scotland and a big helpful hint at its history that makes you want to go see for yourself. The walks are well mapped out and peppered with beautiful photographs of wildlife and landmarks in the area.
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These four Autumn walks in West Dunbartonshire are a great compliment to the area and the people that formed it. As the leaves begin to fall and the colder weather comes in, nature rewards us with new things to see and experience. Paul Murdoch has logged another four mini expeditions that will enlighten tourists and locals in equal measure.
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A fantastic addition for visitors and locals alike, you don't even have to be in West Dunbartonshire to appreciate this lovely book of nature and culture. It gives you a flavour of Scotland and a big helpful hint at its history that makes you want to go see for yourself. The walks are well mapped out and peppered with beautiful photographs of wildlife and landmarks in the area.
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A fantastic addition for visitors and locals alike, you don't even have to be in West Dunbartonshire to appreciate this lovely book of nature and culture. It gives you a flavour of Scotland and a big helpful hint at its history that makes you want to go see for yourself. The walks are well mapped out and peppered with beautiful photographs of wildlife and landmarks in the area.
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Jenny MacLeod and her friend, Pavel, are caught up in the first of their exciting adventures on the Western Isles of Scotland.
This exciting children’s adventure that explores the dilemma between the usefulness of wind farms and the beautiful scenery they can sometimes destroy. Jenny MacLeod’s mother has died and her father is about to lose their farm after mounting debts. The only way for her and her father to keep their home, set on the beautiful Hushwish Bay, is to sign up to a wind turbine project. When protestors invade their beach and her father has a heart attack, the well-to-do Murdochs take Jenny under their wing. She soon finds out, however, that Mr Murdoch has been keeping letters back from her and her father. Letters that could have saved their home without the need to build the wind farms there in the first place. Will Jenny have time to save everything she loves?
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Jenny MacLeod and her friend, Pavel, are caught up in in another exciting adventure on the Western Isles of Scotland.
While care-taking her uncle’s farm on the island of Barra, Jenny and Pavel are embroiled in a plot to steal some very precious sea eagle eggs from the cliffs of Mull. Caught up in the 'Arab Spring', a young Arabian Prince is set to pay a fortune to an egg thief in an attempt to save his family and will stop at nothing. Jenny and Pavel try to do the right thing, but soon end up in a dangerous chase that could risk their lives and those of the eagles. Can they save the sea eagle eggs in time? Will Jenny and the Arabian Prince manage to keep their families safe? Who is the mysterious egg thief?
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'Set in Scotland's wild west, Paul Murdoch's new children's story - THE EGG THIEF , lets kids read about and discuss international politics and conservation... and all wrapped up in one of the best mystery adventure stories I've read for years!' - The Scotsman
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Sunny is about a young boy who has to find out who wants him dead after he survives what is seemingly an accidental crash. Targeted by other pupils because he has darker skin, and drawn into a sectarian attack, he strives to unravel the mystery.
Set near Glasgow in 1973, 11 year-old Sunny is the sole survivor of what appears to have been a tragic accident. However he soon suspects that his survival was itself an accident and is sure that someone else survived the crash too. Once out of hospital, and having escaped an abduction attempt, Sunny returns to school, only to witness a sectarian attack that leaves a young girl severely injured.
Picked on by kids and teachers alike for having slightly darker skin than the rest of his classmates, Sunny, with the help of his older friend, John, try and find out who is behind his abduction attempt and what actually happened on the night of his crash.
Although a tense thriller, the story is full of realistic and sometimes hilarious exchanges that make the story quite life-affirming.
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Full of comedy, family tension, world domination and magic - this, book one in the series, introduces us to the village of Drumfintley through the eyes of 11 year old James Peck.
You see, this isn’t just a book about a young boy looking for his missing father but getting drawn into the final death throes of a dying world by a wizard goldfish. It’s much more than that. It’s about friendship - real, slightly dysfunctional, families - racism - hope - science - asthma - magic - monsters and imagination…
When James’s father disappears up on the moor, the whole village, including James’s mum, thinks David Peck has simply ‘done a runner’. Unconvinced, James tries to retrace his father’s steps and soon finds a weird footprint near the old pile of stones up on the moor. His mind runs riot and he has an asthma attack in his struggle to get back to the village. Soon after, he follows a tall stranger into the local park who he thinks might be linked to his dad’s disappearance. This leads to an encounter with a wizard called Mendel. Banished to Scotland in the form of a goldfish, the wizard makes a pact with James that will take the boy from Drumfintley, and quite a few of its inhabitants, to the magical but doomed world of Denthan.
Village rivalries and family tensions reach breaking point in a world where monsters compete to survive Denthan’s inevitable destruction.
Will James find his dad? Will the villagers escape Denthan in time? Which of the four great races of Denthan will escape extinction?
With Mendel’s nemesis, an evil Hedra wizard call Dendralon, determined to save his reptilian race at any cost, things are heavily stacked against James and his family.
This complex and hefty tome has been enjoyed by hundreds ‘test pilot kids’ already, who have given it great reviews. It has also gained great interest from the charity Asthma UK - as depicting ‘a kid with asthma who still does amazing things…’
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The eden seed
By Damian Peck (aka Paul Murdoch)
Matt Malcolm is a devil-may-care marketing manager who inadvertently discovers an ancient seed that has the ability to extend the normal human lifespan by more than nine hundred years, disease free. Representing a huge pharmaceutical company, he blackmails their competitors who pay up to maintain the status quo. Six months on, however, he loses his job and finds his lover murdered. With the only test crop of The Seed destroyed, a trail of destruction is left over Eastern Europe and North Africa as the rival companies and a religious sect called the Seraphim embroil him in the search for the true source of the wonder drug, known as The Eden Seed.
