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The Boyhood of Burglar Bill

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The Boyhood of Burglar Bill

Coronation Year, 1953, and in Oldbury a Coronation football competition is organised. It’s Spencer’s idea to get a team up – some of them are good, and one of them is even a girl, but all of them are football crazy.

The Malt Shovel Rovers team, despite various calamities, are ready and eager to beat off the opposition and win the cup in this funny and moving story of football and friendship, in a world when the streets were full of kids and empty of cars.

Everyone was poor, but football was still magical, and a best friend would never betray you.

Type Of BookMiddle Novel
FormatHardback
ISBN9780141382845
Published20/03/2007
Price Per CopyRRP $22.00
1–9 copies$19.80
10–19 copies$18.70
20+ copies$17.60
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Allan Ahlberg

In the early 1960s, Allan studied teacher training in Sunderland, where he also met Janet, his future wife. He had tackled a wide variety of jobs, ranging from postman to plumber’s mate before working as a primary teacher for ten years. Janet, however, discovering that she ‘couldn’t do the policing job’, went on to study graphic design, which led her to her vocation as an illustrator.

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