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Poor Man, Rich Man, Thief, Beggar-man?

Piers Paul Read ODD MAN OUT by Ronald Biggs Bloomsbury, f14.99, pp. 279 O f the 14 books I have written over the past 27 years, the only one I now regret is The Train Robbers,......

The Astrakhan

It was one thing to wrap the astrakhan about your person, strutting out as if all verse that had ever been depended on a coat of such expensive cut that no one meeting you would......