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      4th Estate

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2017

      Copyright © Ian Sansom 2017

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      Ian Sansom asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780008146740

      Ebook Edition © January 2017 ISBN: 9780008147068

      Version: 2017-11-14

       Dedication

       To Trinity

       Epigraph

      I come not from Heaven but from Essex.

      WILLIAM MORRIS, A Dream of John Ball (1888)

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Chapter 9: The Role of Pageantry

       Chapter 10: The Oyster’s Lonely Subterraqueous Sigh

       Chapter 11: The Aviatrix

       Chapter 12: Bluebeard’s Castle

       Chapter 13: A Kind of Knocking

       Chapter 14: A Mechanical Aphrodisiac

       Chapter 15: What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

       Chapter 16: Flitration & Purtefication

       Chapter 17: An Average Essex Affray

       Chapter 18: A Few Discreet Enquiries

       Chapter 19: Loose Screw

       Chapter 20: The ‘Cottaging’ Existence

       Chapter 21: Proof! Proof!

       Chapter 22: Kursaal

       Chapter 23: Up and Down and Round and Round

       Chapter 24: Oil and Dirt

       Chapter 25: In the Trenches

       Chapter 26: Jumbo

       Chapter 27: Paradise, Norfolk

       Acknowledgements

       Picture Credits

       Keep Reading …

       About the Author

       Also by Ian Sansom

       About the Publisher

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