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Victor Canning was a prolific author of thrillers & humorous novels. One of the latter is Mr Finchley Takes the Road. We don't have a copy of this book in Kent Libraries & Archives, but it is available as a print-on-demand hardback or paperback:
http://www.lulu.com/content/hardcover-book/mr-finchley-takes-the-road/6115744
The book was also dramatised on BBC radio:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007k0qs
Mr Finchley sets out in a gypsy caravan to travel across
Thanks to his popular books and work as a screenwriter in
"Bartenden" is a fictitious location, but most of the
"It put on no airs, displayed few beauties, but it was an honest, plain market town... It had a history yet made no ostentatious show of it. It was content to be what it was, a market town...It seemed to stand beside the brown Medway and say to all comers, "Here I am, just a plain, ordinary sort of fellow, a bit careless about my appearance maybe, a bit rough in places, but I know my own business and I stick to it."
I'd like to assure readers that we make more of an ostentatious show of
Canning used
John Higgins maintains an excellent website celebrating the work of Victor Canning: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/canning/index.html
NB. John Higgins took part in the BBC quiz, Mastermind and chose the Birdcage books of Victor Canning as his specialist subject. The relevant programme is due to be broadcast on Friday 13 November 2009 at 8 p.m. on BBC 2.
5 October 2009 from Rob Illingworth
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One correction: the book is not a free downloadable e-book but a print-on-demand hardback or paperback. I wish it was free, but it is in copyright and I have to pay a fee to the Victor Canning estate for every copy sold. Lulu.com is a print-on-demand service; paperback books usually take about a week to arrive.