Mike Fendalton is a once-in-a-generation programmer - totally inept and unspeakably unlucky. His life in Braintree, Essex, revolves around the pub, work and failing to get lucky with women. So it comes as a major surprise when aliens abduct him to help them fix their enormous, out-of-control planetary defence system. It is an event that is to change his life completely.
"Saving Romford" is a humorous antidote to those books and television programs about genius programmers who can divert enemy missiles and break into the Pentagon's computers using nothing but a cellphone and a laptop. Our hero is a 9 to 5 slob who is far more concerned with his own well-being than that of his long-suffering employer.
Saving Romford is proving to be a very popular book with computer people and as a retirement or birthday gift for people in the computer industry.

Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored."Ê Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books.

There are now 65,000Ê titles availableÊ (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such asÊ Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon.

Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website.

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