The Marching Band Emporium: A personal selection

By L.A. Davenport

In a lost corner of London, just outside the East End, lies a faded bow-fronted shop.

No-one ever visits, but if you were to push open the creaking door and step over the piles of unwanted mail, you would find, in the dust-laden darkness, row upon row of shelves stuffed with trumpets, tubas, cornets, trombones, clarinets, drum

• Language: English
• Publisher: L. A. Davenport
• Release date: Feb 14, 2012
• ISBN: 9781999595753

L.A. Davenport

L.A. Davenport is an Anglo-Irish author and journalist. Sometimes he lives in the countryside, far away from urban distraction, but mostly he lives in the city. He enjoys long walks, typewriters and big cups of tea.

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