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First published 2010 by Picador

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The publishers are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: extract from ‘Welsh Landscape’ by R. S. Thomas reproduced by kind permission of Bloodaxe Books; extract from Naked reproduced by kind permission of Mike Leigh, Thin Man Films and Faber & Faber.

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