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		<title>Maverick Sabre &#8211; They Found Him A Gun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   Maverick Sabre &#8211; They Found Him A Gun  by  roundhouseLDN 
Twenty-year-old Maverick Sabre is an Irish Londoner equipped with a unique hip-hop style and a blessed way with words. For more info, music and pictures take a look at the Beatnik interview.
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		<link>http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/maverick-sabre-they-found-him-a-gun/</link>
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		<title>Mrs Eckdorf in O&#8217;Neil&#8217;s Hotel by William Trevor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reads like this:
He had bought a small plot of ground a few miles from where they lived and he had just erected on it two glass-houses in which he proposed to cultivate tomatoes for profit. He had come back one evening and asked her if she&#8217;d ever noticed tomatoes in the shops. &#8216;A full chip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/mrs-eckdorf-in-oneils-hotel-by-william-trevor/</link>
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		<title>A Bumper Sticker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Stolen from Fred Reed&#8217;s Site.
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		<link>http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/a-bumper-sticker/</link>
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		<title>An Enemy of the People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve made a great discovery. . . and I&#8217;ll tell you what it is: the strongest person in the world is the one who stands alone
Dr. Tomas Stockmann.
Henrik Ibsen&#8217;s opening play at the newly refurbished Sheffield Crucible, is An Enemy of the People, with Anthony Sher in the role of Dr Stockmann.
It&#8217;s a disturbing drama, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/an-enemy-of-the-people/</link>
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		<title>Waiting for the Physio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Margaret was a tiny self-contained woman with silver hair, gold earrings, striped trousers and a pale mauve body-warmer. Perhaps she had been a beauty, but her chin was doubtful now and there was crazy-paving around her eyes. Tiny feet, well-shod in leather lace-up shoes.
Grace was over-weight and all her parts were subject to more than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/waiting-for-the-physio/</link>
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		<title>Winged with Death &#8211; The Audio Cover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Proposed cover image for the audio version of Winged with Death.

Unabridged audio by Isis Audio Books, read by Michael Tudor Barnes.

Publication details when available.]]></description>
		<link>http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/winged-with-death-the-audio-cover/</link>
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		<title>Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The second chapter opens with a Kafkaesque scene:
He woke up soaked with sweat, breathing stale and fetid air. A naked light bulb shone in his eyes and he found he was in a steel-framed bunk slung by chains from the wall, like a bunk in a troopship or a jail.
&#8220;. . . Everybody out,&#8221; a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/disturbing-the-peace-by-richard-yates/</link>
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		<title>A Voice From The Book Trade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at The View From Here Magazine, Helen Miles talks about her experience of the book trade:
I was quite unprepared for the bizarre practices that persist in the selling of a book. Apparently, I must set a price for our books (that must end with 99p, obviously) and then offer a whacking discount to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/a-voice-from-the-book-trade/</link>
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