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The Radio Ham - David Fletcher - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

In the middle of the 22nd Century, a time when humanity has lost its grip on all forms of advanced technology, Sidney is one of the few people in the world who still has access to ham radio, and who is making use of this facility to keep in contact with three other ‘hams’ around the world. With this small network of remote friends, he has been able for some time to endure his existence as a serf in what is now a rigidly partitioned Britain. However, he now finds himself facing a situation where it seems he will have to look to just his own resources to survive. Through overpopulation, ignorance, and an unwillingness to confront the reality of their situation, the people of this crowded country are facing imminent starvation. For Sidney, who lives in the ‘southerner’ part of the country, close to the partition line, this means that soon he will be exposed to a wave of desperate ‘northerners’ as, in their hundreds of thousands, they move south in search of food. This is the story of how Sidney seeks to save himself – albeit not solely through his own resources, but with the help of an improbable new friend.

DKK 120.00

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Making Waves - Susie Rose - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The saga of how the north of Scotland secured its own commercial radio station at this time in history isunique. Radio station licences were strictly controlled by the Home Office and the standards for output wereset deliberately high. Here we have a group of community activists who didn’t have experience or a penny totheir name. They raised funds for photocopying their application by holding plant sales and in the processscared off the more serious local investors who didn’t think they’d pull it off. But they did. The rest of the book looks at what they did with it, the story told largely in anecdotes from those who were there. With a bunch of largely untested on-air talent, and relying on a great deal of volunteer labour, they ended up with some of the best listening figures in the country. It’s a remarkable tale backed up by dozens of photographs that will evoke the 80s and 90s. The book explains why truly local radio was so important to the communities of the north of Scotland at that time when the economy was fragile and unemployment savagely high in some places. Presenters share what it was like to become a household name and reminisce about the music and the lighter side of radio life and how it change the lives of so many. If you love radio this book is for you.

DKK 172.00

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Asian Auntie-Ji - Mike Curtis - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Facing redundancy from the BBC after 20 years as a reporter and news editor, Mike Curtis got a stay of execution. His salvation found him unexpectedly in charge of setting up a newsroom for the BBC radio station broadcasting to the Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi communities across the Midlands – the Asian Network. He stayed for 14 years. Asian Auntie-ji tells how this son of an Anglican clergyman, with a love of western music, was thrown into a new world of Bollywood and bhangra, Diwali and Vaisakhi, Mirpuri and mosques, and cricket and Kashmir. The book unravels how this unique radio station dealt with many controversial issues arising from the religious and cultural sensitivities of its audience and its staff. It reflects how the Asian Network covered riots, racism and terror, but also how it gave a voice to so many British Asians; from the geographically isolated listener on the phone-in to those who achieved fame in sport and entertainment. Mike Curtis follows the story of the Asian Network, from its roots in local radio to its UK-wide expansion – and its dealings with BBC bosses. The views of its champions and its critics are reported with honesty and good humour. The Queen, the Duchess of Cornwall, Sebastian Coe, Ravi Shankar, Jay Sean, Amir Khan, Greg Dyke, Meera Syal and Shah Rukh Khan are among those sprinkled throughout the saga, along with the Asian Network’s own stars like Bobby Friction, Sonia Deol and Adil Ray. Mike Curtis describes how the team was moved around the managements of Radio 1, Radio 2 and Five Live – and how they regularly upset The Archers at Radio 4. Asian Auntie-ji is a fascinating autobiography that will appeal to an audience beyond the story of the radio station, embracing such names as Monty Python, TV’s Big Brother, Brian Blessed, Carlos Santana, Boris Johnson, Judi Dench, David Blunkett, 1950s test pilot Roly Beamont and DJ Orifice Vulgatron. Those with an interest in the media, the BBC, politics, and ethnicity and the South Asian experience in the UK will find it particularly rewarding.

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Caught in a Cold War Trap - Miller H Caldwell - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Listening to a Radio Moscow broadcast on holiday on Jura, Glasgow schoolboy Robert Harvie finds errors in the programme which he reports to the Russians. Then as a student, the Soviets give him a grant, inadvertently compromising him. His first job takes him to Ghana, and soon he has murder on his hands. How can he escape Soviet attention and how can his espionage be tolerated by his Scottish girlfriend? This is a fast-moving thriller based on an incident in the author’s life. It will excite and leave you grateful that you were not compromised as he was…

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Charlie Echo - Andrew Bullas - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Like Aladdin , but with post-traumatic stress, Charlie Echo is a story about wishes – the last wishes of a dying soldier in Normandy in 1944. Verbal wills of this sort are valid if there are two witnesses and the first men on the scene are radio operator Charlie Goodman and his assistant, Sid Saunders. Unfortunately, in the confusion of events that follow, Charlie fails to ascertain the full identity of the dying officer and is invalided back to Blighty plagued by trauma and remorse. Once he has been demobbed also, it falls to Saunders to break the impasse by getting his comrade to repair a radio telephone, just like the one they were using in France. What he doesn''t anticipate is that working on the set will prompt Charlie to not only hear the mystery soldier''s voice again, but to see him too. If not quite the genie in the lamp, it seems like there’s a ghost in the machine and one that’s been transported to his workshop in Leeds. Dismayed to discover that his wishes have not been carried out, the ghost goads Charlie into journeying through post-war Britain in order to fulfil his battlefield promise. Jolting between humour and pathos, it’s a journey that transforms reclusive repair man into unlikely pantomime hero and propels Saunders off in pursuit to play his allotted role in the “show”.

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Immigrants turned activists - Simone Battiston - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

What do Australian celebrity chef Stefano de Pieri, former Labor state MP Giovanni Sgrò, and the late SBS Italian Radio host Umberto Martinengo have in common? They are all Italian immigrants who became political militants, along with several hundreds more, in left-wing organisations and parties before or throughout the 1970s in Melbourne, a key period of Australian political history in the post-Second World War period. This book offers a unique insight into the life trajectories of politically active Italian immigrants and their left-wing grassroots organisations. It does so in the light of fresh archival data and a string of oral accounts gathered from former and current members and collaborators of leading left-wing organisations, such as the Italian Federation of Migrant Workers and Their Families (FILEF). This study, which portrays successful pro-migrant lobbying as well as organisational failures and political sectarianism, is a telling example of the political potential and limits of immigrant activism in Australia.

DKK 149.00

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More Than Just Memories - Tony Ward - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Rites of passage, troubled voices, love and loss, nature, heroes, war, environmental crises. Tony Ward’s poems invite us to relive the experiences, triumphs, and tragedies that waymark our lives and that of our planet. This is a collection of two halves. Thirty-one of the poems have been previously published in various forms, broadcast on local radio, appeared on film, or won prizes, the other thirty are new. Among other sources, Tony has drawn upon his popular Poetry+ series for the lifestyle magazine Sussex Life . Then, following his wife’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease, Tony began writing words of comfort during the pandemic lockdowns for the Alzheimer’s Society social media. Informative, entertaining, thought provoking, humorous, verse traditional and freestyle, and above all easily understood. This is a collection to be savoured. You may even recognise yourself reflected at times. If you find some modern poetry hard going, then this is the book for you. Like the much-loved long-running “Classics for Pleasure” record label, this is “Poetry for Pleasure”, a collection to dip into whatever your mood. Go for it!

DKK 120.00

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Huckleberry Dreaming - Brooklyn Beaumont - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

In a world strangely reminiscent of 1950s America, ardent pacifist Carney Caldwell is arrested for allegedly punching his best buddy into a coma, but he has no clear recollection of what happened that night. Following a week in jail, he awakes in a hospital, suffering from shock. Pumped full of calming medications, he reflects on the bizarre series of events that led to his predicament: the gradual disintegration of his beloved childhood gang, the Arch Angels, his unrequited love for Dakota, their ill-fated dalliance with illegal substances, and his slow descent into a black hole of mental instability and delusions. An enigmatic radio salesman visits Carney''s bedside and, under the guise of a new treatment called ‘distraction therapy’, tells him the tale of a shy orphan boy named Doran, who lived on the planet''s other continent. The story contains uncanny parallels to Carney''s own, and as it unfolds, he begins to question not only his identity, but everything he used to believe and hold dear about his planet.

DKK 126.00

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Keeping a Puffer Afloat - Henry Cleary - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

From the heart of Rosyth naval base in 1978 five volunteers set out on VIC 56, an elderly steamer snatched from a scrapyard fate. With only a basic radio and a compass made usable by one of the crew, they set out down the North Sea. Turned away by some ports and welcomed in others, she began a new life on the London river just as Docklands was being reborn. This was the first of many challenges to keep the steamer going and family, friends, work colleagues and sympathetic visitors were ruthlessly enlisted to help. A rare survivor of wartime shipping, the puffer attracted interest around the Thames estuary and in 1989 sailed across the North Sea to Flushing in Holland. VIC 56 appeared in arts events and in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Pageant in 2012 before being donated to Portsmouth Boathouse 4 in 2019 where she is a popular exhibit. Trips were only possible through the heavy work programme of the engineers to keep the engine, boiler and other machinery in good order. This book looks at the challenges for small historic vessel owners and how to stay ahead.

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Turn Around and Take a Bow! - Mike Dixon - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Mike Dixon has been involved in the British music industry for over 40 years and has been Musical Director for more than twenty West End productions including, We Will Rock You, The Bodyguard, Grease, Aspects of Love, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar. His TV credits include six Royal Variety Performances, countless light entertainment series and Glastonbury with Shirley Bassey, as well as a huge number of high profile television and radio concerts. His career has taken him all over the world working with some of the most iconic artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Dame Shirley Bassey, Lord Lloyd-Webber, Leslie Bricusse, Sir Tim Rice, Don Black, Sir Elton John, Lionel Richie, Sir Tom Jones, Lady Gaga and Queen. The book follows his journey as his exciting and eclectic musical career develops. From his early musical experiences in Plymouth, studying at Trinity College of Music, to conducting in the Royal Albert Hall, with plenty of humour along the way, it is a little peek behind the scenes into the world of entertainment from a unique, hands-on perspective.

DKK 134.00

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Sugar, Gravy, Pleasure - Pete Elderkin - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Growing up in Peterborough, voted the ‘ worst place to live in England & the UK’ , certainly had its challenges. But a love for Nick Cave’s band and a passion for indie music launched the author, Pete Elderkin, on a series of extraordinary events while following a dream to reach that holy grail for rock groups, a BBC Radio One John Peel session. Sugar, Gravy, Pleasure details the ups and downs of being in the wrong place and time while trying to DJ and run an exciting alternative music club in what seemed a hostile, provincial environment. This is a wry, self-deprecating memoir set over eleven years and telling the true story of The Sugar Club and how it, improbably, became one of the longest running nightclubs in the UK. It captures, with first-hand contributors, the fun experiences and social history of the unique 1990s and 2000s, when the Grunge and Britpop scenes came from out of nowhere to the forefront of the UK music scene. " I loved it. A beautiful, big-hearted book. Sugar, Gravy, Pleasure is a love letter to a lost time when music was at the centre of the universe." Tony Parsons, journalist, broadcaster and author.

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Bandwagon - Richard Cobourne - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

“Written with an insider''s knowledge, utterly addictive, fun thrillers revealing the darker side of showbiz. I loved them!” Melanie Chisholm (AKA Sporty Spice) Life hasn’t turned out how Danny Owen expected it to. Formerly an investigative journalist, today a radio reporter reluctantly covering celebrity and the music industry, focusing on glitz, glamour and the gaudy stars. Danny is offered an exclusive interview with Martha, the star of the forthcoming Martha Movin’ Out tour, but when he arrives at Elstree Studios he discovers that rehearsals are not going well. Not suspicious initially, but then things take a dire turn when he learns that Martha has disappeared. With the concert tour potentially in ruins, Danny and occasional lover Daisy DeVilliers, the tour’s PR, team up beyond the call of duty in an effort to find Martha and rescue the tour. Soon Danny and Daisy are unwittingly inveigled into the murky world of people smuggling, blackmail and international organised crime. They pick their way through a minefield where one wrong move could not only blow the rescue attempts but could also end their own lives. In a duplicitous world where people show only their best side, trusting the wrong person could be the last thing they ever do.

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Your Wellness Toolbox - Ali Swift - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

“My Wellness Toolbox by Ali Swift is, without a doubt, the best self-help book that has been written and published in the past couple of decades.” – That’s Books and Entertainment Following the release of the well-received My Wellness Toolbox in 2018, Ali Swift now presents Your Wellness Toolbox, a perceptive and supportive self-help guide that includes yet more tools to begin building your self-worth back up. After releasing her first book, Ali started Talking Tools with You , sharing 26 of the powerful tools that helped her manage and overcome crippling anxiety and build a more positive mindset. The more she talked to the public via 121 coaching, events, workshops, and radio about the Tools, the experiences they then shared with her inspired her to add another fourteen tools to her original book which has then led to this sequel. Discover the sets of tools that can support you in different scenarios, from hospital appointments to family events… and even pull out the tools that can help you ride the waves of a Global Pandemic. Crying, Guided Meditations, Drawing & saying YES are just a few that are working for Ali! Are you ready to discover even more tools for your Wellness Toolbox?

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Just Another Girl on the Road - S. Kensington - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Summer 1944: Stranded behind enemy lines in France, eighteen-year-old Katrinka Badeau escapes German deserters with the help of Major Willoughby Nye. Once an employee on her father’s merchant ship, Nye is now part of an undercover Jedburgh operation, working for the Allies. When he offers her a job on his team, she accepts. Her work throws her together with Sergeant Wolfe Farr, the team’s tough-talking radio operator, and they embark on an intense love affair. But Katrinka is not prepared to accept Wolfe’s plans for the future. And her love for Nye, which has evolved from an adolescent crush to that of a young woman, still endures. With the liberation of France, both men are sent to the Far East. Realising what she has lost, Katrinka joins a small entertainment troupe, and sets out on an arduous journey around the world to find Wolfe. But when the three are finally reunited, which love will withstand the test of time? Praise for Just Another Girl on the Road : "Difficult history, abuse, war and love combine in this emotional examination of the end of World War II… A deep, evocative read …inventive, finely-woven and captivating." – IndieReader "Well-plotted and often exciting… An informed, imaginative tale that adds some romance to a well-researched war story." – Kirkus Reviews

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The Coppers' Lot - Rob Hindley - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

“ Policing is a uniquely dangerous, harrowing and challenging profession where officers are expected to do far more than prevent and detect crime. To be a police officer is also to be a social worker, marriage guidance counsellor, mental health worker and medic. ” Offering incredible true stories from the front line of policing, The Coppers'' Lot is a compelling insight into what it takes to be a police officer in Britain in the 21st century. The extraordinary experiences recounted include: - The heroic officer who continued to put his life in grave danger as he pursued marauding terrorists wearing suicide vests, while they indiscriminatingly stabbed members of the public. - The undercover officer who targeted organised crime groups and drug dealers. - The courageous officer who regularly tackled knife crime head on, saving several lives. - The intense feeling of elation when an officer discovered key evidence to convict a murdering paedophile. - The officer who, trapped alone and disarmed with a violent man, persevered despite being in fear of her life as her radio was thrown away leaving no means of summoning help. Taking readers on a ride along with the exceptional men and women who have sacrificed so much whilst protecting and serving their communities, these officers reveal, often in their own words, just how much policing has changed from the traditional notion of the bobby on the beat.

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The Coming Day - Adrian Wright - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The new book in the Francis and Gordon Jones mysteries set in 1950’s Norfolk A witty spoof of the classic boy’s detective stories. Following on from The Voice of Doom (ISBN: 97817893285) There is something freshly appealing and charming about the Francis and Gordon Jones mysteries, compared by some to the works of E F Benson, with inevitable nods to Dorothy Sayers and Conan Doyle. The second in the series of their detective adventures, The Coming Day, has five new intriguing cases for the intrepid investigators to solve. A missing girl in a Cornish seaside town … the mysterious death of a man dressed as a woman in a fleapit cinema … the unravelling of an old murder trial… the arrival of a foreign doctor coinciding with communal disaster … the search for a missing photograph. With its host of regular characters in the little Norfolk village of Branlingham, including the Revd. Challis, Mrs Jones of Bramley apple pie and curious corset-making fame, the terrifyingly autocratic Lady Darting, the snooping postmistress Miss Simms and ravishingly handsome actor Rufus Wolfe, Wright has created what the Bookhound calls ‘a literary delight … Brilliantly funny, deliciously wicked and thoroughly enjoyable’. Inspired by Anthony Wilson’s famous 1950s radio characters Norman and Henry Bones, these are sunny stories with an irresistible mingling of comedy and, sometimes unexpectedly, deeper themes. In the current glut of crime writing, they are unlike anything else.

DKK 107.00

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The Odyssey of a Sound Recordist - Malcolm Stewart - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A fascinating memoir looking back on a ground-breaking career. Published posthumously, the book contains a number of colour photographs from Malcolm’s archives. In a time before television had really started, the computer age had barely begun and there was only one domestic channel on the radio – the BBC Home Service. One of the few operators changing the discs was a 15-year-old boy from the East End of London. The year was 1944 and Malcolm Stewart had just embarked a career that would take him on a journey to leave a world of poverty and drabness behind him. That journey would take him to Hamburg and forces broadcasting, a billet that would see him placed in charge of former members of the SS, and uniquely for someone destined for the film business give him the kind of security clearance that attracted the CIA. Malcolm’s book recounts a career spanning some of the most important British films of the twentieth century, being deported from Cuba and fleeing via the jungle from Ghana with help from the CIA. In his garden shed, Malcolm also started Audio Systems, a company that would for a time, rival both Pinewood and Shepperton Studios for their sound services. He developed the world’s first portable multitrack recorder. He went from the film business to television news, covering some of the biggest stories of the 80’s. Through this long and distinguished career he met many world leaders, film stars and journalists, who knew him as Malcolm, one of the industry’s unsung heroes.

DKK 182.00

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Butterfly Ranch - Rk Salters - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Winner of the 2018 Rubery Fiction Prize “The Britisher lay on his belly, arms cradling his head. He was wearing dirty shorts and there were beads of caked mud in the hairs of his calves. A washed-out black tee shirt had slid up his torso and bunched around his shoulders, baring the base of his powerful spine...” Tristan Griffin is a household name and the author of a universally popular detective series. For the past few years he has lived in self-exile in a remote jungle lodge nestled in the Mayan hills of Southern Belize, with his partner Hedda. Butterfly Ranch begins as he attempts suicide and Hedda disappears. Altamont Stanbury, an old Kriol police constable posted to the local backwater of San Antonio, rushes to the scene with his daughter Philomena, the village nurse. Philomena saves Tristan but he remains unconscious. Altamont, a bumbler and long-time reader of crime novels, launches a half-hearted search for Hedda by radio but decides to remain at the lodge. In truth his reverence for Tristan the writer consumes all else, and he becomes obsessed with the Griffin books he finds at the lodge. When Tristan comes to, he is distraught and at times delirious, haunted by flashbacks of his uncompromising, cursed love for Hedda and the dark secret behind her disappearance. His anger and increasingly erratic behaviour only find respite in the presence of Altamont’s innocent daughter. But he feels nothing but spite for Altamont himself, and the relationship between the two threatens to have fatal consequences for one or both. Butterfly Ranch is a story of obsessive love, self-destruction and unexpected redemption.

DKK 113.00

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Escaping the Ordinary - Lorna Almonds Windmill - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

“Gentleman Jim is a special forces hero – and he is one of mine too." Sir Ranulph Fiennes, OBE The trailblazing sequel to Gentleman Jim: The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS . Following his death-defying Second World War, Gentleman Jim Almonds would never settle to an ordinary job. The SAS was disbanded but as a thirty-year-old Captain, he still hungered for adventure. After training Emperor Hailie Selassie’s Army in Ethiopia, he went as Second-in-Command of a bandit-chasing outfit in the new ‘Wild West’ of Eritrea. He was on active service in so-called peacetime. Atrocities and killings were common, but British justice was swift during a race against time as Almonds brought terrorism under control before the implementation of a United Nations decision to federate Eritrea with Ethiopia. Meanwhile, he embarked on personal adventuring and exploration alone in the wilds, rivers and highlands of Ethiopia, sometimes coming close to death. He was still the great escaper. The SAS reformed in Malaya and Almonds ran straight to the battle again. Back with the Regiment, he parachuted into the jungle to clear communist terrorists out of Malaya. In the early days of the Malayan Emergency, he improvised insertion techniques, close quarter combat training and led the long slow marches out. The success of this British campaign has been largely unsung – until now. In Singapore, Almonds took time out to design and hand-build boats in which he and his family sailed around the Straits of Johor. Another opportunity took him to the Gold Coast as a Major in the West African Frontier Force. He witnessed Independence as the British Union Flag was lowered and Ghana was created. He built a riverboat and navigated the mighty Volta River, before it was dammed, through dense equatorial jungle from Yeji to the sea. He even built, by hand (no power tools), a thirty-foot ocean-going ketch – designed and memorized whilst in an Italian Prisoner of War camp. He sailed out into the mid-Atlantic and home to England. He had no modern steering aids, no health and safety and no radio – yet an uncanny sense of direction. In the dog days of Empire, the story captures the snapshot detail of the many countries he visited during his three-month intercontinental voyage. The account is set in a meticulously researched context, fully sourced and contains a comprehensive index, maps and glossaries.

DKK 155.00

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The Radio Ham - David Fletcher - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Making Waves - Susie Rose - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Asian Auntie-Ji - Mike Curtis - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Caught in a Cold War Trap - Miller H Caldwell - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Charlie Echo - Andrew Bullas - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Immigrants turned activists - Simone Battiston - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

More Than Just Memories - Tony Ward - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Huckleberry Dreaming - Brooklyn Beaumont - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Keeping a Puffer Afloat - Henry Cleary - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Turn Around and Take a Bow! - Mike Dixon - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Sugar, Gravy, Pleasure - Pete Elderkin - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Bandwagon - Richard Cobourne - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Your Wellness Toolbox - Ali Swift - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Just Another Girl on the Road - S. Kensington - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Coppers' Lot - Rob Hindley - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Coming Day - Adrian Wright - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Odyssey of a Sound Recordist - Malcolm Stewart - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Butterfly Ranch - Rk Salters - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Escaping the Ordinary - Lorna Almonds Windmill - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

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