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ALSO BY THE SAME AUTHOR

DEDICATION

SEPTEMBER, 2014:

Escape to Cordoba – Thatcher and other broken promises – Memoirs, dogs and lampposts – A Believing Age

APRIL, 2014:

Miss R comes to Wapping – Margaret sideways – A tomb by the Thames – Ronnie, Woodrow, Frank and David Hart

MAY:

Doomed walls – Ronnie Millar’s piano – Remains of Molotovs – Seaside balsa palaces – In the Falklands War – Gotcha!

JUNE:

Falling glass – D.H. Lawrence in the Miners’ Strike – How I was Woodrowed – Frank Johnson and the penis on the roof

JULY:

Four ghosts return – Frank finds the skip – Latin at The Old Rose – Gorbachev and the Gunpowder Plot – Maggie, Out, Out, Out!

AUGUST:

When Wapping dies – Woodrow Wyatt in the Locarno Room – Poems by a Prime Minister – Cool Britannia – Seneca’s last bath

SEPTEMBER:

Cordoba, three weeks on – Deaths and letters – Who Miss R was – The Senecans’ farewells – Escaped parrots

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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