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First published by Viking in 1987 as The Return of a Native Reporter
Second edition including the Afterword, ‘Moaning Minnies and Montrachet’ published by Penguin in 1988
This revised and expanded edition published by Alma Books in 2012
Copyright © Robert Chesshyre 1987–2012

Robert Chesshyre asserts his moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Printed in England by CPI Antony Rowe

Packaging, typesetting and eBook by Tetragon

Cover photograph © Peter Reimann, Evening Gazette GMC
(Gazette Media Company) Middlesbrough.

ISBN: 978-1-84688-228-9
eBook ISBN : 978-1-84688-229-6

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For Christine, Thomas, Edward and Kate