Ben Murnane is the author of Two in a Million: A True Story About Illness and Love (published by A&A Farmar), his memoir of experiences with the rare genetic disease Fanconi anaemia. Ben was diagnosed at age nine; at 16, he became the first person in Ireland to have a new type of bone marrow transplant. He is the first person with FA ever to publish a book about his experiences.

Ben was born in 1984. In his final year of primary school (at the Bray School Project, Co Wicklow), at age 12, he started a small magazine, The Fush Monthly, which he hoped could be used to keep friends in contact with one another. TFM later became TF – Totally Fushed, and was published by Ben’s own ‘company’, probably the world’s smallest media consortium, Nottwel™.

Ben went to secondary school at St Andrew’s College in Booterstown, Co Dublin, and finished his degree in Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College in 2008. He has a cat that continues not to appreciate his talents.

On this site, you can read lots of old pieces by Ben from Totally Fushed and elsewhere, as well as get info on his book – and buy it! We’ll be updating the site from time to time with new articles as well as more stuff from the Nottwel archives, so be sure to come back again and again.