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|author=Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda

|title=Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels)

|rating=4

|genre=Graphic Novels

|summary=I don't do religion, but still there was something that drew me to this comic book. For one, the whole Buddhist faith is still a little unknown to me, and this was certainly going to be educational. Yes, I knew some of the terms it ends up using, but not others, such as bhikshu, and had never really come across the man's life story. Yes, I knew he found enlightenment and taught a very pacifist kind of faith, but where did he come from? What failings did he have on his path, and who were the ones that joined him along the way?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>9381182299</amazonuk>

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|author=Joanna Arman

|summary= There were few sadder casualties of the sixties music scene than Syd (real name Roger) Barrett. The original songwriting genius and front man of Pink Floyd, he burnt out all too soon. A few months in the spotlight were followed all too soon by a pathetic postscript of a stuttering solo career, and over three decades as a largely housebound recluse.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655482</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Keggie Carew~~

~~|title=Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=Biography~~

|summary=Keggie Carew is the second child of a most unorthodox father. On the one hand he's a left-handed stutterer with little to recommend him other than that he was a law unto himself and a complete maverick. But - born in 1919, the second world war found him being tested for SOE, Churchill's secret army, who were tasked with conducting espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance in occupied Europe and later in South East Asia. Within a matter of months he would be parachuted into occupied France with the aim of supporting resistance groups ahead of the allied invasion of occupied France and carrying the rank of major - at the age of just 24. Later, in South East Asia he would be known as 'Lawrence of Burma' and worked with Aung San, the head of the Burma Defence Army (and father of Aung San Suu Kyi)and was at one stage ''plucked off the Irrawaddy by a flying boat, like James Bond''.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470315X</amazonuk>~~

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