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Shrapnel
[Paperback - 2009]
robert swindells
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Publisher: Corgi Uk | ISBN: 9780552559300 | Pages: 224
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Gordon tracks down his older brother, Raymond, who is missing after World War II begins and, although his brother claims he is acting as a secret agent for the government, Gordon is unsure what to believe.

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Robert Swindells was born in Bradford in 1939, the eldest of five children. He left the local Secondary Modern School at fifteen to work as a copy holder on the local newspaper. At seventeen he enlisted in the RAF and served for three years, two in Germany. On being discharged he worked as a clerk, engineer and printer until 1969 when he entered college to train as a teacher having obtained five 'O' levels at night-school. His first book 'When Darkness Comes' was written as a college thesis and published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1972. In 1980 he gave up teaching to write full time. He likes travelling and visits many schools each year, talking and reading stories to children. He is the secutatry of his local Peace Movement group.Brother in the Landis his first book for Oxford University Press. He is married with two grown-up daughters and lives in Bradford.Author description taken fromBrother in the Land.

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