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Ian Marchant has run a second-hand bookshop, and is a comedian, singer, song-writer and cabaret performer. Parallel Lines is his first work of non-fiction. He lives in Devon.
‘Compelling... Part Bill Bryson, part Nick Hornby, part memoir and
part pastiche... Light, lively and, above all, right: what every
enthusiast should be expected to know'
*The Times *
‘Michael Palin meets Nick Hornby meets What the Victorians Did for
Us... wacky and amiable'
*Independent on Sunday *
‘A gloriously disingenuous front for the most acerbic and humorous
criticism of public transport policy ... a more entertaining and
incisive read will not be found this year'
*Glasgow Herald*
‘The trip keeps its pace and purpose, fuelled by the genial,
flexible rhythms of the prose and enriched by two centuries of
railway-culture hinterland'
*Independent *
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