Writer from Manchester // LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out in 2026 // drjamesbailey on instagram and the blue place 🐈⬛caa.com/entertainmentt… ManchesterJoined February 2013
Goodbye Allan. You were a pioneer of great children's literature, both in picture books and poetry. You were clever, funny and wise. My children loved your books. So did and so DO I.
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