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About author
Brian W. Lavery Style: Non-fiction

Dr. Brian W. Lavery was born in Glasgow’s East End in 1959, the fourth of six sons. His father William was a sheet metal worker and his mother Margaret a shop assistant. Brian has been a factory worker, car valet, market trader, waiter, university dropout and latterly a journalist, university tutor and writer. After 25 years of various senior roles in national and regional journalism he returned to higher education and gained a first in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Hull. THE HEADSCARF REVOLUTIONARIES derives from his funded PhD research at that university, where he also taught creative nonfiction. THE LUCKIEST THIRTEEN is his latest book.
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