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Authors: Tony Macaulay

BOOK: Paperboy

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E
ver since I was a boy I've had dreams of writing a book. Even when I was a paperboy up the Shankill in 1975, I daydreamed that one day a book would be published with my name on the front. To be perfectly honest, the dream was that the book would be an explosive science-fiction classic, with silver robots on the front cover, that would be made into a Hollywood blockbuster movie to rival
Star Wars
! I never imagined back then that one day my dream would come true, or that the book would simply be about being a paperboy up the Shankill in 1975.

So, as you can imagine, I am enormously grateful to everyone who helped to make that wee boy's dream come true.

I will always be thankful for a happy childhood, for a loving family and good friends.

I especially want to express appreciation to my wife and soul mate, Lesley, for listening patiently to every word of every draft. I also want to thank my daughters, Beth and Hope, for demonstrating great tolerance while their dad was going on and on about what they call âthe olden days'.

I want to acknowledge Susan Feldstein's experience and remarkable skill, which she applied with great support and positivity, throughout the editing phase. I thoroughly enjoyed the process and learned a great deal about good writing.

Finally, I want to thank Chenile Keogh and Robert Doran from Y Books for believing in
Paperboy
, for all their hard work and warm encouragement and for working their magic to make my dream come true.

Biography

Tony Macaulay grew up at the top of the Shankill Road in Belfast. This experience has shaped his life. Tony has spent the past 30 years working to build peace and reconciliation at home and abroad. In the 1990s he developed and implemented local and international youth programmes on conflict resolution. In 2008, following his experience of living on and working on the peace lines, he developed a discussion paper proposing a process for the removal of the âpeace walls' in Northern Ireland.

Tony is also a writer and broadcaster and has been a regular contributor to BBC Radio Ulster. He married Lesley in 1986 and they have two children, Beth and Hope.
Paperboy
is his first book.

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Â© Tony Macaulay 2011

Tony Macaulay asserts the moral right to be
identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record of this book is
available from the British Library

ISBN 978-0-00-744923-1

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