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|author=Steve Backshall
|title=Deadly Pole to Pole Diaries
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Non-Fiction
|summary=Dear Diary, today I really woke up on the wrong side of the bed. For most people that means waking up in a grumpy mood, but for me it literally means the wrong side of the bed. I stepped straight into a pool full of viscous fish and then I climbed out, only to be chased by a bear. I am either eating too much cheese before I go to bed or partaking on a magnificent journey from Pole to Pole visiting dangerous animals on the way.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444013769</amazonuk>
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|summary=As a rule, poetry does not appeal to me - at school it was something to be learned and recited, regardless of merit or meaning and I came to dread those lessons - but there are two exceptions. I love John Dryden's ''Absalom and Achitophel'' for its irreverence - and Wendy Cope, because she speaks to me in words I can understand about matters which concern me. I discovered her when my daughter gave me a copy of {{amazonurl|isbn=0571167055|title=Serious Concerns}} and her humorous poems tempted me to read some of the more serious content. I was smitten. Over the years I've followed with interest what she has had to say about such matters as copyright and the chance to review ''Life, Love and the Archers'' was far too tempting to miss.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444795368</amazonuk>
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