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Eileen Jones previously edited The IRON Book of New Humorous Verse (October 2010)

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Made in Nottingham: A Writer's Return Anthony Rudolf comedy means he is frequentlyThe 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