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Nanni di Banco Banquo Joe Macbeth

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David Ewe Cyril Ramaphosa Charles Lamb

Perhaps the targeting is no better than some years ago when Amazon invited me to buy a Pocket Guide to British Birds after I'd bought an album called Bird with the Herd.

Bernie Cash General Cash My Cheque Mao Tse Tung

I haven't read any Compton-Burnett, but she's on my list of authors to look into. Wikipedia says that Manservant and Maidservant (published in the US as Bullivant and the Lambs) is often considered to be her best work and the university library has a copy, so we shall see ....

Satchmo Tito Gobbi

Massive Attack Crispus Attucks Quentin Crisp

Man Ray Ray Bauduc Killer Ray Appleton

Ice T T Bone Walker Frederick March

Oliver Twist Chubby Checker The Bouncing Czech

Reds Under the Bed Armchair Socialists Bollinger Bolsheviks

I've been getting a lot of online ads for hearing aids recently (which I'm pleased to say I don't need.) Can it be that my advanced years plus interest in music are prompting these? Now they've been replaced by ads for portable toilets. Can this be because I've looked at the (open-air) Llandudno Jazz Festival's site several times recently? Do you ever feel you're being targeted?

Humphrey Lyttelton on Jazz 625 is supposed to have been an influence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uLpjp7xkyI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TebUMhJAKSM

Pim Fortuyn Sonny Fortune Buddy Rich

Walter Gropius Elliot Handler Fiddlin' John Carson

Rochdale Hornets Karen Horny Randy Brecker

I haven't read The Pardoner's Tale, but written in 1978 it sounds well after Wain's vintage period - I always see him as a novelist of the 50s or 60s. Glad you've read Hurry On Down, which must be one of the best English novels of its times. The Contenders was sufficiently interesting to take me back for a re-reading some years later (as Hurry On Down had been.) The other Wains I've read - all from his earlier period - are now just a blur in my memory. I seem to recall that Strike the Father Dead had a jazz theme.

General Jack D Ripper Rip Van Winkle Felix Wankel

The Platters Dishy Mr Dawson Margery Daw

Sister Kate Shakin' Stevens Bobby Plater

Wild Bill Hickok King Alfred The Boys of St Cakes

Kitty O'Shea Puss in Boots Booty Wood