A Llanon author has published his first book, Wake Up Fatty (A Philosophy of Fat).

Wake Up Fatty is the informal and humorous look at the ‘life of fat’ of Donald Sinclair.

Don, having been a self-confessed ’fatty’ and having lost the weight and kept it off, has now become a self-confessed ‘fattist’ and has decided to commit his personal views and experiences to this book.

Sharing his often cynical and sometimes possibly controversial views, his blunt perspectives on life from people to pensions, from religion to racism are related to his weight loss.

With practical advice on what has worked for him, he hopes to inspire you to lose weight too – if indeed you need to – or at least have a laugh trying.

Born in the Lancashire, mill town of Oldham in the 1960s, Don was of a generation and a culture where it was essential to grow ‘big and strong’, which meant eating as much as you could cram down your throat.

This invariably led to him becoming a ‘fatty’.

The book is unlike the general run-of-the-mill self-help literature in that it reminds the reader throughout that it is only they who can determine their weight, and although the mantra of the so-called experts should be borne in mind, listening to them alone is destined for eventual failure.

See this week’s south papers for the full story, available in shops and as a digital edition on Wednesday