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    Clootie's Cover
    Clootie's Cover
    Clootie's Cover
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    Clootie's Cover

    By Robert James Tootell

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    A few million heads are missing in Heaven. Strange scratches and signs appear all over the place. God and St Peter are forced to investigate some decidedly odd doings on the third planet and come up against Clootie, the old man of the village... Hold on to your aureoles!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert James Tootell
    Release dateFeb 2, 2012
    ISBN9780955694073
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    Robert James Tootell

    Welcome everyone,Here is a quick list of my literary efforts so far:A Cafe in Kazimierz and other stories (Paperback, 2002)Krakow Stories and Stranger Things Than This (Paperback, 2008)Krakow Stories and Stranger Things Than This (E-book, 2009)Stranger Things Than This (E-book, 2010)Selected Stories and Poems (E-book, 2011)Five Stories for Makers of Short Films (E-book, 2012)Luke (E-book, 2012)Clootie's Cover (E-book, 2012)Kiskutya (E-book, 2012)I'm currently studying for an MA in Scriptwriting at Glamorgan University, and recommend it for anyone and everyone who is interested in learning this craft - it's a brilliant course with brilliant tutors.Back to me! Here are some of my favourite stories and books:The Three Lilies by Jan Neruda;In a Far Distant Land, Light Breathing, In Paris, et al, by Ivan Bunin;The Bishop, The Artist's Story, Rothchild's Fiddle, by Anton Chekhov;Red Cavalry, The Tales of Odessa, by Isaac Babel;Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal;Gimpel the Fool, The Cabalist of East Broadway, by IB Singer;Klingsor's Last Summer by Hermann Hesse.Dark Avenues by Ivan Bunin;The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell;The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller;Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves;The Radetsky March by Joseph Roth;The Red and the Black by Stendhal;The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino;War and Peace by Lev Tolstoy;The Drowned and the Saved, Moments of Reprieve, by Primo Levi.Currently living in France and writing for radio.

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