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Old 10th Apr 2015, 17:03
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Genghis the Engineer
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I have a complete set, including quite a few first editions - it's just what I can get away with as my "one book" on the island It would be a fair swap for the complete works of William Shakespeare at the very least.

Incidentally, I discovered the other day that somebody recently (well, 2002, but I'd not been paying attention at the time) published a "lost" Shute which he never published in his lifetime - called "The Seafarers", another on the theme of how WW2 affected the young people who served then returned to a new civilian life after the war, not unlike "Requeim for a Wren".

It's on my coffee table to be started shortly, after finishing the new biography of him last week: "Parallel Motion" by John Anderson which was, incidentally, very good.

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