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Cover by the excellent Michael Doig By the time you are reading this, my new novel, the Physic Garden, will be published on Amazon's Kindle store, here . The book is finished, revised - many, many times - and now I'm formatting it, at the same time as looking for last minute glitches and the typos that will have got away from a handful of readers as well as myself. And writing a blurb. The cover artist is  Michael Doig.  Once again I have to say what a pleasure it is, as a writer, to be able to work with an artist to reflect the contents of the book so closely. The Physic Garden is the story of a close friendship and a betrayal so shocking that it pervades the whole novel, like the memory of a nightmare. The tale is narrated by William Lang who was once a gardener at the old college of Glasgow University. Now, William is in his seventies and widowed, but living with his family. He has spent most of his life as a cautiously radical printer and bookseller in the growing cit...