All This and Many a Dog - Memoirs of a Loser/PessimistWas 12. 99, now specially priced at 10. Jim Godbolt began a lifelong involvement with jazz in the 1930s. He became manager of George Webbs Dixielanders after demobilisation from the Royal Navy and ran a band agency with Lyn Dutton and Humphrey Lyttelton before forming his own agency in 1952. He left the entertainment business in 1971 to concentrate on a career in writing and his memoir of working in the music industry, was published as All This and

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short stories and poetry from 17 of today’s Yemeni authors

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he is such a modest man

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‘I’m a virgin

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deceptively simple…her range is wide

There are stories that work with quietly understated stealth – casual talk around a game of dominoes in ‘Beeline Against Babylon’ reveals a deep undercurrent of affection between father and son – and stories that have a ragga boldness and laugh-out-loud inventiveness

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