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As much a history of culture and place as much as it is a biography, it's a fluent look at so many things which are difficult to catch without being sentimentally nostalgic - an intelligent, moving and thoughtful account of so much that has gone. But it's also packed with information - I loved that combination. --Lee Hall Peter Crookston has written a book that is at once an elegy and a tribute. This is a moving account of the pit closures and the miners strike in the North East, but it is also an exploration of a landscape and a way of life that is vanishing day by day. He has captured testimony from miners and union officials, from miner s wives and politicians, from town planners and fellow journalists, and he has caught it just in time. --Margaret Drabble

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Peter Crookston is a journalist and author who worked as an editorial executive on both The Observer and the Sunday Times. His first book was Villain: The Biography of a Criminal, published by Jonathan Cape. In 1984 he wrote the script for Lions Led by Donkeys, a Channel 4 documentary about men who survived the Battle of the Somme.

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