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09/05/96: Vanity.
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Profile Books@ProfileBooks9 May 2019
Happy birthday Alan Bennett! Here he is in our office, looking cheerful even though we'd probably just asked him to sign 1000 books.
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@FaberBooks9 May 2019
'Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.' Happy 85th Birthday Alan Bennett!
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08/05/97: The names Americans visit on their children never cease to amaze me. One of Diana Ross’s daughters labours under the name of Chudney.
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02/05/12: Jeremy Hunt has the look of an estate agent waiting to show someone a property.
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01/05/05: Manchester United.
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01/05/08: Home [from hospital] and my first outing is to the local community centre to vote against the dreadful Boris.
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30/04/07: I always think my style, such as it is, is a compound of all my deficiencies. But maybe that’s what style is anyway.
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18/04/88: The Sun.
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17/04/13: Thatcher's funeral.
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16/04/14: Batrachia (bəˈtreɪkɪə); plural noun: amphibians, including frogs and toads, which have gills and a tail in their larval state.
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14/04/97: Taking a position.
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13/04/84: The Scouse Cabbie Incident.
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08/04/13: An epitaph.
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12/04/13: Each day brings new revelations about those due to attend The Funeral [Thatcher’s]. One inevitable attendee, now of course unavailable, would have been Jimmy Savile.
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07/04/10: The open mouth of Chelsea's Frank Lampard, having scored a goal, is also the howl on the face of the damned man in Michelangelo's Last Judgement.
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05/04/98: The South - it's summat to see.
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01/04/16: In this morning's Guardian the name of the Duke of Edinburgh is put forward to spearhead the [Remain] campaign. It’s only in the middle of the afternoon that I remember the date.
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29/03/13: Remembering Richard Griffiths.
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29/03/98: The conductor on the GNER train to Leeds is now styled Customer Operations Leader and announces himself as such, though - and it’s to his credit - he stumbles several times when he has to broadcast this absurdity.
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