If you had paid him privately for a lesson in how to present magic it would have cost you many hundreds of pounds. It was top drawer stuff from a top professional. It was worth the price of  the convention registration alone.

No doubt there will be some terrific tricks on show but if you want to buy just one magic item that I guarantee will enable you to become a better magician – close up or stage – then I would recommend you get a copy of Geoffrey Durham’s new book “Professional Secrets – A Life in Magic” It’s packed with twelve ideas and routines plucked from his professional programme honed over thirty years of performances all over the world and interspersed with twelve essays on the real inside story of being a successful professional performer. Real life, valuable information that you cannot buy at a magic shop. There are thousands of books and manuscripts on magic technique but few on the real business of success in magic. This in my opinion is one of them. There are more gold nuggets in this book than the state of Alaska.

After his talk at The Magic Circle he sold out his entire stock in twenty minutes and at Blackpool he’s offering it at a special convention price of £25.00 following his lecture. If you really believe that magic is about performing and not just about secrets -do yourself a favour and get a copy at Blackpool.