Writing a book is an awful lot like writing a PhD thesis: it’s long, hard work filled with the feeling that, at some point, someone is going to work out that you are a fraud. Luckily for me, that day has yet to emerge. My editor at Palgrave Macmillan just sent me an e-mail to say that the book has survived the review process and publication is now assured. Now I just have to see what the copy editor is going to do to my sometimes lovely, sometimes awkward prose stylings.