45 years ago I co-wrote The Usborne Guide to Understanding the Micro. The title has been out of print for a generation. I was surprised to find it listed at Google Books.

My book is also still on sale at Amazon.com. Mind you, the sellers don’t want much for it.

The Usborne guide was my first book and, in sales terms the most successful although not the most lucrative. I can’t find any evidence but remember it featured on some best-seller lists and total sales ran to hundreds of thousands. If you know, please get in touch.

Usborne translated the book into a number of other languages including German. The cover of that version is below and, sigh, doesn’t feature my name. I remember there were other language versions including one in Arabic, I once spotted one in a shop somewhere in Spain. There were at least three reprints of the English edition.

Oddly the picture shown at Google Books isn’t the cover but the title page from inside the book.

My other books haven’t fared so well. I wrote one about programming the Commodore Plus/4 in 1984 under the pseudonym Gordon Davis after I saw a player with the same name score a goal for Chelsea one weekend. At the time my contract didn’t allow me to write for any other titles even though the book had been written before the job started. For some reason Google added the word ‘Bitter’ in the name. I’m not sure what that’s about.