I didn’t recognise the book on my shelf. I barely noticed it, in fact, scanning the titles quickly for a different one I had mislaid. But somehow the thin tattered spine of its dusty, crumbling dust jacket caught my eye as it rested in the shadowed end of the book case.
It was one of my Dad’s from his radical student days. I had kept a few of them when w…
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