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Saddled with a new career; Taking the town's position as a national laughing stock as his inspiration, Paul McDonald's brought Walsall to book.

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20011103
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Byline: Alison Jones

Walsall is somewhere that is seldom visited by the literary muse.

Its most famous son may have been a writer, but Jerome K Jerome had barely learned to talk let alone put crayon to paper by the time he bade farewell to the centre of the leather making industry.

But when university lecturer Paul McDonald started his first novel he abided by the authors rule of thumb to write about what he knew.

Despite claiming to have spent most of his life trying to find somewhere worse than Walsall, Paul has never left the town. In fact he has lived his ...

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