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Graham McEune was born in Oxfordshire. At 40 he quit his well-paid managerial job and set off to see the world and to write ‘The Great British Travelogue’. He currently lives in Southeast Asia, and has won Southeast Asia’s Travel Writer of the Year award.

Marshall Cavendish (Asia) Ltd published his attempt at ‘The Great British Travelogue’ Upcountry, which although receiving glowing reviews failed to make him a millionaire.

My name is Frank and I am in denial. I am not in denial about my name being Frank, I am in denial about the event that has befallen me. It crept up, stealthily, like a ghost in the night while I was looking the other way, trousers down, preoccupied with what I thought of as more important matters. The harbinger of evil arrived in this morning’s post concealed in a manila envelope marked The content of the missive was brusque and to the point, composed by someone familiar with the art of bad news letter-writing. Yet even if the envelope had been pink with little red hearts on it and the letter written in flowing, kindly prose and sprinkled with niceties and words of condolence, though more palatable, it wouldn’t have made my predicament any easier to come to terms with.

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