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a deeply unfashionable man is invited into a privileged world and in so doing creates the coolest club on the planet.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
a bobby (another nickname, based on the name of Sir Robert Peel, the nineteenth-century Home Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police)
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
Red Bull’s billionaire founder - Colossus
He died on Boxing Day 1963, penniless following his recent divorce and unsuccessful investments.
Jim Smallman • I'm Sorry, I Love You: A History of Professional Wrestling: A must-read' - Mick Foley
‘primed with happy faces’.
Ross Edgley • The Art of Resilience: Strategies for an Unbreakable Mind and Body
A Channel 5 character study on the Kia boys.
Ivar had always been a charming guest, and he put on an urbane show for the Marcossons. But anyone who knew him well would have seen a new person. One of Ivar’s most consistent traits since childhood had been that he rarely laughed. Yet now he was suddenly a comedian, relaying humorous anecdotes throughout the day and cackling after the punch lines
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All of these relationships apparently took place in sixth grade. Extramask shook his head sadly. It was hard to tell whether he was consciously being funny or not. The next arrival was a tanned, balding man in his forties who’d flown in from Australia just to attend the workshop. He had a ten-thousand-dollar Rolex, a charming accent, and one of the
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