I think it tends to be random because I get most of my books from Bookmooch and charity shops. Because you have to get books when you see them it pays to have lots of books on your ‘wishlist’. This means that I tend to add anything that catches my eye – and hence the randomness.

I do have a policy, though, that if I’m not getting anything out of a book then I give up on it – I’d go mad otherwise.

Variety is the spice of life.

Maybe there was some kind of hypnosis in play that made people randomly buy his magic book. I guessed that I’d just given up too soon on trying to learn the palming – maybe I should try and give it another go.

Do you mean a link to the Amazon page? It could easily be arranged for next months column. And the PKD book is excellent, well worth a read.

Me and the lads worked our socks off in training, so we felt that we deserved the victory. We’d like ri dedicate the win to the fans who have stuck with us through the hard times.

Luckily I met someone at a party once who was a magician (he performed at the party and was amazing) and he said that if you just practice and practice it becomes natural – so I did. But you lose the skill quite quickly.

Just an editorial note: would be great if you could do links to the books that you read. The Phillp K Dick novel sounds awesome.

Congratulations on the win!