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|author=Richard Weight
|title=MOD: From Bebop to Britpop, Britain's Biggest Youth Movement
|rating=5
|genre=History
|summary=''Mod'' is arguably a rather-overused term. First of all, there is the matter of establishing a precise definition. ''Modernism'', which was soon abbreviated for convenience, began as the working-class movement of a newly affluent nation. Once the age of immediate post-war austerity was gone, the cult of a youth keen to shake off the drab conformity of life in 1950s Britain took hold. It was more than anything else an amalgam of American music and European fashions, beginning as a popular cult and gradually becoming a mainstream culture.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597888</amazonuk>
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|summary=Kevan de Vries, food processing magnate and grandson of a Dutch immigrant to Lincolnshire, is trying to help his terminally ill wife Joanne relax on an exotic holiday. Unfortunately the news he receives from home is less than relaxing: a random break-in committed by local opportunistic youths has uncovered a batch of counterfeit passports. Kevan travels back to the UK to answer questions but it gets worse. Skeletal remains are found in his cellar followed by a discovery elsewhere of an all too fresh employee's dead body. This is bread and butter to DI Tim Yates of the Lincolnshire Constabulary but it's another complication in Kevan's all too complicated life.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773827</amazonuk>
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