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You've got to be kidding
You've got to be kidding
You've got to be kidding
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You've got to be kidding

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This book contains a selection of very readable, short, fun, stories about the many humorous situations that life has placed me in over the years. I have tried to introduce some of the quirky characters that I have met in my daily life. ere were many very humorous incidents and others more startling and ghostly in character. However, life has a

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Release dateMar 13, 2017
ISBN9780648014638
You've got to be kidding
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Brian O'Donnell

Brian O’Donnell was born in Tyneside… the middle one of five brothers, whose love of books was encouraged by their parents, Jean and Jerry. After leaving secondary modern school, he took up an engineering apprenticeship which involved a spell in London. From there, he joined the Merchant Navy sailing to the Persian Gulf and India, and shuttled between New York and the Caribbean Gulf. He returned home but had a tough time finding steady work, so he enrolled as a mature student at Northumbria University, graduated with honours, and assumed a teaching post in Newcastle. An illness forced his premature retirement, so he started a less stressful job as a market researcher. He is married to the best smile in Tyneside and has twin boys and a daughter.

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