Can You Get My Name in the Papers?

Acknowledgements
Foreword

Your fly's open, Prime Minister

My dad was an alien

I nearly become a Russian

Crime reporter

The Idiot who cut Harben's Recipe

Doctor in the Gorbals

The gas man cometh
I only promoted the sausages
No time for Jewish funerals
The toughest job in Scotland
You're bonkers Diamond
Back to the fold
The Exodus sails again
The sculptor who neffer heard of me
I'm sued for #7 million
California here we come
The ambassadors
Treasure hunt
Publish and be damned
It ain't what you do
The doodle that went round the world
A call from the desert
Jackie
After the Garden Festival
Cultural Capital of Europe
Michael has a taste of war
Death of a newspaper
Flashman author comes to Erskine
John starts a bust-up
Crazy Horse and Queen Kong
Can you get my name in the papers?

 

In the absence of the gift of total recall, I had to rely on many people to confirm dates, places and conversations. My grateful thanks therefor to Bill English, Bob Palmer, Andrew Miller, John Watson, Steven Inch, Mike Blair, James Rae, Jane Phelps, Jean McFadden, Peter Russel and Edward Brodie, among many others. I particularly thank my friend Ezra Golombok for his encouragement and advice at every stage of the preparation of the manuscript.

 

Harry Diamond

Glasgow 1996