Made in Nottingham: A Writer's Return Stephen Dobyns

Made in Nottingham: A Writer's Return Stephen DobynsThe Tyneside writer Peter Mortimer is used to writing about difficult places. Against Foreign Office advice he wandered round Yemen. He set up a children's theatre group in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon and, over one summer, walked the length of Britain with one dog and no money, dependent on the kindness of strangers to provide accommodation and food. In this book, part memoir, part documentary and social commentary, he undertook a shorter

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Combining the themes of corruption

to find refuge in the distant floodplains until the war is over

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