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Title Info: Reasons to be Cheerful: The Life and Work of Barney Bubbles
Author: Paul Gorman
UK Publication date: November 2008
Format: 280 x 230mm
Extent: 224pp + 4pp Cover
Binding: Hardback
UK Price: £24.99
Word count: 55,000
Photographs: 600
ISBN: 978-0-9552017-3-8