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MICK FINLAY was born in Glasgow but left as a young boy, living in Canada and then England. Before becoming an academic, he ran a market stall on Portobello Road, and has also worked as a tent-hand in a travelling circus, a butcher’s boy, a hotel porter, and in various jobs in the NHS and Social Services. He teaches in a Psychology Department, and has published research on political violence and persuasion, verbal and non-verbal communication, and disability. He now lives in Brighton with his family.
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Ebook Edition © March 2017 ISBN: 9780008203207
Version: 2018-01-22
To Anita, John and Maya
Contents
South London, 1895
The very moment I walked in that morning I could see the guvnor was in one of his tempers. His