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|title=Look Who's Backis Tom Ditto?|author=Timur VermesDanny Wallace|rating=54
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|summary=''Hitler Youth Ronaldo! Which way to Danny Wallace is the street?'' foremost exponent of ‘Bet Based Non-Fiction’ that I know. With these words This is when a very misguided Nazi Fuhrer asks for his first directions bloke says something daft in the Berlin of 2011. Mistakenly believing the lad to be a party junior member with pub and follows through; Wallace has started his own name on cult, his football shirt, he also thinks for a while it is still 1945own nation and said Yes to absolutely everything. He's soon informed of the truthHowever, but still makes some unfortunate conclusions – that the street kiosks selling Turkish language newspapers things are fine as a sign of a Soviet-beating alliance between quirky adventure in the two countriesreal world, that but following people eat granola bars because the war still leads around London and copying their every move? That sounds a little like stalking to a bread shortage, me and that people making an ironic speech bubble with their fingers should perhaps be best explored in the air is all that is left world of the Hitler salutefiction. But yes, after In a long hiatus neither he nor our author is particularly concerned with explaining, ''that man'' is back – and if he has his way he's going to be just as popular this time round…world like Danny Wallace’s new novel ‘Who Is Tom Ditto?’|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570529260091919037</amazonuk>
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|summary=Tom Button has had enough of small-town Australian life, and wants to grasp the nettle at the earliest opportunity and escape for more exotic places as soon as he's free of school and he and a friend can afford it. Until the friend kills that pipe-dream. Plan B for Tom soon becomes the life of a university student in Melbourne, with the chance to live in the apartment his aunt left behind when she died – at least it's in an exotically named development building, called Cairo. But Plan C soon forms for Tom, when he falls in awkwardly with some bohemian neighbours – who still, despite being ten years older, have plans of their own for making their own way to a better life – just not the way Tom ever suspected…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848663919</amazonuk>
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