Everyone knows that the music business is terribly competitive. London is traditionally the heart of it but, for a time
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THE NIGHT STUDY
I watched the face of the man who could destroy me and, even then, I remember thinking what a fine
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“We’ve given him something for the pain.” He was on the bus, going to the High School for the first
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A black and white photograph. Five men walk along a concrete path, one ahead, the other four behind, line abreast.
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The Unig did not encourage guests, other than as an opportunity to tie them to stakes and cut their heads
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This is a story of the civil war but not the civil war you are expecting. This is the civil
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Imagine a busy pub in the village of Dorstone, where everyone is quiet, listening to Jack playing his violin. When
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It was all going to be a terribly big adventure. He was going to have swimming lessons with his father
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A long time ago, before human beings had invented the wheel and the world had gone to the devil, there
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My grandmother’s family had once been well to do farmers in Lingen near the Welsh border until her father took
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