Blog: A Month Or More Of Mondays

Don't give up on the day job...

Mark Cantrell muses on the ironies of life and work. Back in June, he wasn't expecting to share something in common with the protagonist of his latest novel – then he found himself out of a job...

FATE, it seems, certainly has a sense of irony.

My day job came to an abrupt and unexpected end the day after June's general election. The company that had employed me for more than a decade was declared bust – so we were all redundant. Ouch! Since then it...