Hi there

I’m the publisher of Paul Smith’s book ‘Wasted?’ which tells the story of his incredible career and what he has been doing since being banned from playing cricket professionally for taking drugs. It’s a fascinating tale, which combines insight into what being a top sportsman can be like (in a whirlwind of drink, drugs and women), how he joined the Mile High Club, a playing colleague lost his virginity to a chicken, how Paul has lost far too many friends and colleagues to gun crime and how he lost his job, income and family in one fell swoop, while almost all other cricketers who have received sentences for drugs offences have been dealt with far more leniently.

In fact it’s got so much lurid detail that Warwickshire County Cricket Club have banned the book from their premises as it raises a lot of questions about their employees and their possible complicity in the well-known drug-taking of members of what was, in fact, the most successful domestic cricket team of all time - the treble winners of 1994.

To find out what Warwickshire don’t want you to know buy the book on http://www.knowthescorebooks.com. Only £16.99.

You can also hear Paul Smith on Eamonn Holmes’s show on BBC Radio FiveLive on Saturday 26 May from 9-11am.

Desparate measures for a desparate man if you
ask me…his behaviour hurt a lot of people
who cared along the way…lucky his father
Ken is no longer alive…it would have
saddened him greatly…so he helps out unlucky
kids….what about his own…its been a long
road for them too…but thats the price you
pay when you try to help someone with a
self destruct button…you end up hurting too

Just to let you know that Paul will be talking about his life, and his book, at The Stratford-upon-Avon International Festival of Literature on Saturday 19th April, 2008, at The Mercure Shakespeare Hotel, Stratford, at 3pm.