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Kevin McAllion

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in Dundee, The United Kingdom
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Gunter Grass, Roddy Doyle, Vladimir Nabokov, Roger Mellie

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I was born in Dundee but now live in Glasgow with my wife Thanyalak and daughter Jennifer. I have worked as sports journalist since 1997, when I started out writing football match reports for The Sunday Mail newspaper while still a journalism student.

Since then I've written and edited for a wide range of publications, including the Scottish Daily Express, The Big Issue in Scotland, The Herald, The Scottish Standard and The Scottish Daily Mail. I now work full-time as a sub-editor for the Daily Record and Sunday Mail.

When not at work I relax at home with my family and survey my simian empire, rhesuspark.com, which is probably the world's only spoof monkey park
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Kevin McAllion Being able to create and control your own little world. You can also leave out all the things that annoy you in other books
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Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow
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Interesting selection of interviews with a vast array of American comedians, spanning several decades. You end up learning a lot more about Judd Apatow and his work than anyone he interviews, with lots of repeated anecdotes, but it's only a minor irr ...more
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Interesting selection of interviews with a vast array of American comedians, spanning several decades. You end up learning a lot more about Judd Apatow and his work than anyone he interviews, with lots of repeated anecdotes, but it's only a minor irr ...more
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Seymour Hersh leaves no stone unturned in this fascinating exploration of the dark side of the Kennedy family.
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As a child who grew up in the 1980s, Clive James was a huge cultural figure in my life, be it poking fun at Japanese game shows or fronting travelogues and documentaries.
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I read this after watching the film so there were no great surprises in terms of the plot, given Kubrik's classic is a pretty faithful representation of the original text, unlike his adaptation of The Shining.
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