This is a book that made me very cross as I read it/

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How to carve out a job as a writer.

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After yesterday's foray into flight, there we are again but this time in the forces.

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A career novel that really takes off!

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This could have been me!

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Medicine for beginners.

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An introduction to this series about career novels.

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David Roberts' art is always fascinating but the subject matter of this book is what sold it to me initially.

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Paul Dowswell, the First World War and Barrington Stoke: three excellent reasons to read this novel.

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Mal Peet wrote too few novels in his too short life and I loved them all.  This panegyric comes from 2008 and I stand by every word of it.

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