Devey puts pen to paper
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ROAD HAULAGE IS awash with would-be scribes. Suckling Transport boss Peter Larner opted for fiction and has risen up the Amazon bestseller charts with his Jack Daly series, while FairFuelUK’s Peter Carroll’s ‘Gurkha: The true story of a campaign for justice’ had a foreword by Joanna Lumley.
And now Hilary Devey is joining the transport literati. Unsurprisingly, her TV career has led to ‘Bold as brass: My story’, available in all good book stores today.
Don’t expect it to be a gripping account of pallet throughput figures in Coalville but – as the pre-publicity states – it’s a “powerful memoir that reveals the full story of her turbulent life”.
Bold as brass is an apt title for Devey’s memoirs – so here are some suggestions for others who may wish to put pen to paper. ‘The long and the short of it: the Dick Denby story’; ‘A penny saved is a penny earned: the Andrew Tinkler story’ and ‘Third times’ a charm: a story of haulage in the north-east of England’...