Advice for Life from a Survivor: Remember what’s important

I am often asked if my experiences since surviving the Paddington train crash has changed my views on life and what, if any, life lessons I have learnt. Of course the answer is ‘yes’ to both so I’ve decided to share my thoughts and advice with you in a series of short videos. This first […]

Simon Weston OBE reflects on ‘From Behind the Mask’

Pam’s  book, From Behind the Mask, for me is not so much about the person Pam was before, even though that is important to understand.  This is about the person Pam has become. On the face of it (no pun intended), Pam and I have little in common.  What we obviously share is that we […]

Sir Trevor McDonald reviews ‘From Behind the Mask’

One of the things I’ve always thought of as a journalist is how quickly we move from one subject to another in our work, from one major story to another yesterday’s incidents, yesterday’s disasters are soon relegated to the file of things past, always recalled when the occasion demands, but in the main gone from […]

Sir Roger Moore’s review of From Behind the Mask (yes 007!)

I, like many others, vividly remember the news reports and pictures from the site of the Ladbroke Grove rail crash and the later front page images of Pam Warren wearing her mask. Who could forget? But in between and since those headlines there is another story which, until I picked up this book, I knew […]

Bringing a Book to Market – part 3

And so there we all sat in the sun dappled courtyard of the Garden Museum, my friend Tony, Sam and Suzanne from Biteback and myself.  The advantage of meeting face to face with Biteback Publishing was that I was able to ‘present’ my story. They could see the passion I had for the manuscript and, […]

Bringing a Book to Market – part 2

The phone rang, it was the publishing agent. ‘Do you want the good news or the bad news?’ he said, referring to my manuscript.  ‘It is a fantastic story and very inspiring’ was the good news.  The bad was ‘you’ve written it very much in the third person, it is too impersonal, there needs to […]