‘The Righteous Men’
Reading Peter Black’s Blog yesterday about those thousands of blogging Peter Blacks in the United States prompted me to recall that I was well into my twenties before I discovered any Bourne who was not a close relative. Then by one of those strange coincidences that happen in life. I met two in the same week. One of whom worked for Ken Baker MP and the other was a contender candidate for three jobs that were being advertised by a company in central London. In fact the two of us both succeeded in getting one of the three jobs that were being advertised. That was Merfyn Bourne, who is now based in Lampeter.
I am currently reading the best seller that has come out recently ‘The Righteous Men’ by Sam Bourne. When I borrowed it from the library the staff at Aberystwyth Library were keen to know whether he was a relative or not. I answered that I didn’t think so, and on checking the blurb in the book it appears that Sam Bourne is actually a nom de plume for a prize winning journalist. I now find myself scanning the text to see if I can see any prose similarities with the writings of Martin Shipton or Clive Betts or Tom Bodden!
