Spinner the Winner
Mike Ormsby is a former BBC journalist and World Service trainer. 'Spinner the Winner' is his first book for younger readers. His popular collection of short stories, 'Never Mind the Balkans, Here's Romania' (2008), earned him the tag 'the British Caragiale'. His screenplay 'Hey Mr DJ' was filmed and released in Kigali in 2007 and topped the bill at Rwanda's first Hillywood Film Festival. His short script 'Enfants Dits Sorciers' was filmed in Kinshasa in 2002. Mike and his wife Angela Nicoara are based in Transylvania, where they have lived for 500 years.