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|author=A P McCoy
|title=Winner: My Racing Life
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=In any walk of life there are people who are universally known by their first names alone. In flat racing, everyone knows who 'Frankie' is and in National Hunt you need say no more than 'A.P.' Legend is an over-used word but not when it comes to the achievements of Tony 'A.P.' McCoy. He's been champion jockey an unprecedented twenty times and his career record of 4,348 wins may never be beaten. In fact, it's tempting to say that it will ''never'' be beaten. He's won the Grand National, the Irish Grand National, two Cheltenham Gold Cups and won the Champion Hurdle three times. Unusually for a jockey he's also been BBC Sports Personality of the Year. He achieved all this by the age of forty one when he retired from racing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409162397</amazonuk>
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|author= Jackie Morris
|summary=One of the ways ''Doctor Who'' has esteemed itself through belonging on our screens so long is the way the title character has slowly become an archetypal figure. We know what he's supposed to do – save the day, and we also know that if he's at either extreme of the scale – falling on a case through mishap, or being omniscient and bang on time and perfect, it doesn't work. But there's a lot of middle ground there, and countless tales for him to wander along with his knowledge, his TARDIS and a sonic screwdriver, and put things just so. His fifty years on screen have allowed him to become a stock figure almost – pretty much with a set task, as if he were, perhaps, a character in a routine story, such as a fairy tale. And as if to prove that genre can host him, here is a whole book of short stories in his universe – although that's not to say he's in every one…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405920025</amazonuk>
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